All posts tagged "fire"

  • CCTV Appeal following Rainhill Farm Fire (Video)

    (Via Merseyside Police) Detectives have issued CCTV footage of three males they would like to speak to following a fire at a farm in Rainhill on Sunday 20 August. At approximately 4.40pm Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service...

    • Posted August 22, 2017
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  • Prescot Remondis Fire: Five Days On

    Five days on from a blaze at a waste facility in Prescot, firefighters are still on the scene extinguishing pockets of fire. A combined platform-ladder is in use from which to dampen areas still smouldering from deep-seated...

    • Posted December 9, 2016
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  • Major Fire at Prescot Waste Facility

    Prescot residents woke up to plumes of thick, black smoke this morning (Sunday 4 December). Fire crews were called to Carr Lane at 5.57am and were on the scene within six minutes. At least six fire appliances are...

    • Posted December 4, 2016
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  • Firefighters Tackle Prescot Fire for 17 Hours

    Firefighters worked through the night to extinguish a fire on the former BI site in Prescot last Friday night (23 January). Mersey Fire and Rescue Service arrived at the wasteground between Manchester Road and Hall Lane at about...

    • Posted January 27, 2015
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  • Midnight Fire at Pallet Yard in Huyton

    Eight fire engines were brought in to extinguish a blaze on a Huyton industrial park last night (Thursday 7 August). Prescot Online readers from across Prescot and Whiston reported seeing flames and billowing smoke shortly before midnight,...

    • Posted August 8, 2014
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  • Prescot Substation Fire Burns Overnight

    A fire blazed through a two-storey Prescot building for over seven hours on Friday night. Emergency services were called to the power substation on Hall Lane at 11.15pm on Friday 25 October. Firefighters had to wait for...

    • Posted October 26, 2013
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  • Whiston House Fire Is Suspected Arson

    The fire that gutted a sandstone cottage in Whiston on the weekend was probably started deliberately, according to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service. Emergency services were called to the unoccupied property shortly after 5pm on Saturday evening....

    • Posted June 10, 2013
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  • Fire Ravages Whiston Cottage

    Windy Arbor Road, Whiston, was closed much of Saturday evening as firefighters tackled a blaze at a house opposite St Nicholas’s Church. The fire left the cottage, at the entrance to Halsnead Park on Main Drive, boarded...

    • Posted June 9, 2013
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  • Prescot Pub Unsafe after Tuesday Night Fire, Cause Unknown

    The Imperial Hotel on Bridge Road, Prescot, has been deemed unsafe for forensic investigators following a fire on Tuesday night. Emergency services were called to the pub, on the corner of Bridge Road and Station Road, at...

    • Posted March 21, 2012
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