Location: Haydock
Crews were called to a vehicle fire on Stanley Bank Way on the A580 East Lancashire Road near to Liverpool Road in Haydock this morning. Crews were alerted at 6.51am and on scene at 7.00am, with two fire engines in attendance.
Crews arrived to find a vehicle fully involved in fire with one firefighter wearing breathing apparatus using a hose reel jet to extinguish the fire.
Merseyside Police were also on scene and assisted with traffic management, closing part of the road.
By 7.24am breathing apparatus was no longer required and crews continued to damp down and check for hot spots using a thermal imaging camera, a dry powder extinguisher was also used and the fire was fully extinguished.
Police were able to partially reopen the road and crews left the scene in the hands of the Police at 8.03am.