Five fire engines surround block of flats as blaze breaks out

Conaill Corner

13 June 2024 at 11:09 am·1-min read

Erskine Street, Liverpool city centre — -Credit: (Image: Olivia Williams/Liverpool Echo)

Five fire engines were deployed to a fire on the edge of Liverpool city centre.

At around 11.40am this morning (Thursday), a fire broke out on the fourth floor of a ten-storey building on Erskine Street in Islington. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus fought the fire using a main jet.

The fire has now been extinguished and all persons in the building, which the ECHO understands is student accommodation, were accounted for. Crews remained on scene to ventilate the property and hot spot the area.

A fire service spokesperson said one fire engine remained at the scene at around 3pm this afternoon to carry out home fire safety checks.

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