Crews tackled a blaze in a block of flats
Police on Upper Parliament Street.(Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool ECHO)
A major Liverpool road was closed this morning (Sunday) after firefighters raced to a fire at a block of flats. Police set up a cordon on Upper Parliament Street at the junction with Princes Avenue as firefighters tackled the blaze.
Crews were called to a blaze on the first floor of a three-storey block of flats at 9.19am. Firefighters were on the scene by 9.20am, with four engines in attendance.
The fire was within a first-floor flat. Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the flat and began to fight the fire with a hose reel jet before searching the area.
Merseyside Police helped manage the cordons. The fire was extinguished and everyone accounted for, according to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service.
Two people were treated by paramedics for smoke inhalation. A spokesperson for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said the two were treated after smoke seeped into a neighbouring flat.
Two fire engines remain at the scene. An eyewitness told the ECHO that Upper Parliament Street was “all blocked off” with police, paramedics and firefighters in attendance close to the Rialto.
The spokesperson said: “The fire has now been extinguished and the flat is being ventilated. All persons are accounted for and two people have been treated at the scene by North West Ambulance Service for slight smoke inhalation.
“The incident has been scaled down and will soon draw to a close.”
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