Thick black smoke covered a street after a fire ripped through a building.
Yesterday evening (May 24) Merseyside Fire and Rescue were called to a fire at Linacre House on Stanley Road, in Bootle. When the crews arrived at the scene at 9.55pm they found that there was a fire on the first floor of the building.
Firefighters entered the building and tackled the fire using a hose reel jet. Two fire engines were at the scene and the fire was extinguished at 10.26pm.
