A man was in a "stand off" with police after climbing on the roof of a house.
Officers were called to Woolfall Crescent in Page Moss at around 4.30pm today to reports of a man on the roof. The road was cordoned off by Merseyside Police and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service placed a ladder on the side of a house.
The cordon was in place down to Alyton Road. One reader told the ECHO there was a "massive police presence" because of a "man on a roof" and all the area was "taped off".
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One eyewitness told the ECHO the incident had been "going on for three hours". Pictures of the scene showed police vehicles and fire engines at the scene.
A spokesperson for Merseyside Fire and Rescue said they sent two fire engines to the scene to assist Merseyside Police. They left the scene at 6.04pm, around an hour and half after they were first called.
A force incident manager for Merseyside Police told the ECHO the incident involved a "stand off" with a man on a roof. They said the man has since been detained. They said: "We attended a scene to a man on a roof who subsequently came down. He has since been detained."
Photographs showed the man coming down a ladder with the help of a firefighter. All roads have since reopened following the incident.
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