Emergency services called to Liverpool hotel as guests evacuated
Guests at a Liverpool hotel were evacuated following a carbon monoxide alarm activation, with firefighters and ambulances in attendance.
Guests were evacuated from a hotel in Sefton Park on Thursday (December 18).
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) and North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) were called to the Liverpool Aigburth Hotel on Aigburth Drive, after the activation of a Carbon Monoxide alarm.
Fire crews were alerted at 6.42am and on scene at 6.49am, with two fire engines in attendance.
MFRS said that firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the basement area of the three storey building after checking readings with multi gas detector equipment and isolated the gas. The hotel was fully evacuated and all occupants showed no signs of any adverse effects.
In a statement on Thursday, a spokesperson for the fire service said: “Cadent Gas were quickly in attendance and after checking the basement reading for carbon monoxide found them to be high.
“Fire crews requested the attendance of North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to provide checks of the evacuated occupants as a precautionary measure.
“Fire crews continued to vent the property and evacuated residents continued to show no signs of adverse effects. Carbon Monoxide levels continued to drop and a cadent engineer continued to monitor levels throughout the building.
“NWAS assessed the evacuated occupants and took one person to hospital as a precaution owing to an unrelated issue with all the others fit and well.
“A search of the entire building took place to ensure there were no further occupants in the building, with all rooms checked and cleared. After a multi-agency meeting NWAS and MFRS handed over the scene to Cadent for monitoring until levels returned to entirely normal readings. Crews left the scene at 9.45am.”