Location: Netherton
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) attended an incident on Heysham Road, Netherton, on the evening of Monday 14 September.
Crews were alerted at 7.36pm and arrived on scene at 7.43pm, with five fire engines and one HRET (High Reach Extendable Turret) appliance attending.
On arrival, this was a steel frame industrial unit measuring approximately 50 metres by 20 metres and a large section of building involved in fire.
Initial attending crews utilised one main jet and one hose reel jet.
Merseyside Police were requested to attend to assist with road closures and traffic management.
The incident was sectorised with the HRET positioned in sector one making good progress, alongside two firefighters in breathing apparatus (BA) using one main jet in sector four.
The service drone was deployed to provide situational awareness from above and identify hotspots on the incident ground.
Crews gained access to the building affected and the electrics were isolated at 11.50pm, with one ground monitor in use internally.
Two firefighters in BA set up another ground monitor internally and all external firefighting ceased. Good progress was made with the two ground monitors in place.
MFRS crews worked diligently through the night to fight the fire contained within a waste pile in the affected building.
By 05.02am due to the progress made by Firefighters at scene, this incident was scaled down to three fire engines.
One ground monitor continued operating internally and one main jet was used externally. Approximately 10 metres by 3 metres of sheet metal from compartment boundaries of the building were removed to assist external firefighting.
Firefighters continued to monitoring temperatures of the refuse pile and damp down.
At 6.44am, crews liaised with onsite staff regarding the use of an onsite digger to assist with the removal of waste and the damping down of its contents with two main branches.
Merseyside Police attended to assist with traffic management, while firefighting activities concluded. Crews made up their equipment and left the scene at 8.32am on the morning of Tuesday 15 September, with road closures no longer in place.