People were told not to enter their workplaces this morning
Workers on Blackstock Street at 7.25am this morning after a fire in the early hours(Image: Jamie Greer/Liverpool ECHO)
“Big clouds” of black smoke filled the sky after a fire in the early hours of this morning. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service were alerted to a blaze on Blackstock Street in Vauxhall at 2.57am this morning, Monday August 3, and arrived at the scene five minutes later with four fire engines and one aerial appliance.
Firefighters arrived to find a fire on the roof terrace of a two storey building, approximately 15m x 10m. All persons were accounted for, with fire fighters liaising with the building’s responsible person and checking neighbouring premises to see if the fire had spread.
Just before 4am, an eyewitness told the ECHO: “There’s quite a big fire happening off Vauxhall Road. The fire service are worried about the fire spreading.
“There’s people on the roof, there’s thermal drones, they’ve used a grinder to cut through metal shutters.”
The fire service later confirmed the blaze was extinguished at 4.14am. Two teams of two firefighters wearing breathing masks entered an adjacent building and tackled the blaze on a second-floor office space with a hose.
All crews were then withdrawn from the affected roof space due to concerns of structural damage. When the ECHO arrived at Blackstock Street at 7.25am this morning, a fire alarm was ringing and dozens of workers in different businesses were outside.
They had been told it was not safe to enter their workplaces. One woman said: “I live on the next street over. I could see the flames rising this morning. There were big black clouds. I could smell burning too.”
The fire alarm stopped ringing and workers were allowed into the buildings at 7.35am.
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