Two people were treated for smoke inhalation following a fire in a flat on the ninth floor of a high-rise building in Bootle.
Firefighters from the Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service tackled the blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning after receiving reports of a fire at Strand House, on Washington Parade, at 2.21am. Four fire engines and an aerial appliance were scrambled, arriving at the scene six minutes later.
Crews arrived to find flames emanating from the ninth-floor flat and had to deploy breathing apparatus in order to tackle the blaze. They soon got the situation under control and had extinguished the fire by 2.48am.
