Location: Park Road East, Birkenhead
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) are in attendance at an incident on Park Road East, Birkenhead on the evening of Wednesday 6th August.
Crews were alerted at 19.56 and on scene at 19.58 with four fire engines attending.
This was in response to a suspected basement fire within a three storey commercial premises, approximately 60 metres by 40 metres.
On arrival four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus (BA) were committed with one hose reel jet to search the basement area of the property.
The commercial premises above was evacuated.
Crews located the fire in the electrical fuse board, extinguishing shortly after before ventilating the affected area of any smoke logging.
At 20.43, it was determined that this incident would be scaled down to three fire engines at scene.