Customers evacuated after store gas leak.A MERSEYSIDE supermarket was evacuated after a chemical leak from an industrial fridge. Crews from five fire engines helped with the "precautionary" evacuation at Sainsbury's, in Liverpool Road For the Australian road, see . Liverpool Road is located in the London Borough of Islington of inner north London. Liverpool road runs parallel to Upper street and is largely made up of Georgian architecture. It starts at Upper Street and joins Holloway Road. , Crosby, just after 2pm yesterday. It is not known what the chemical was, but it appears to have been toxic and possibly airborne as firefighters used protective breathing apparatus to search for and attempt to isolate the leak. A 43-year-old woman was taken to Fazakerley hospital by ambulance for precautionary checks. Crews from Crosby, Bootle and Netherton, Kirkdale and Bromborough attended the emergency call out. A worker at Sainsbury's said the shop was due to reopen at 8am today. She added: "There was a gas leak The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. For other uses, see Leak (disambiguation). and we had to evacuate e·vac·u·ate v. 1. To empty or remove the contents of. 2. To excrete or discharge waste matter, especially of the bowels. the store. "I do not know how many people had to be evacuated, but no one was hurt as far as I know. "We just had to evacuate very quickly, and we will not be opening to the public again today." Jay Pimbley, who works at nearby Catherine Caddick's Jewellers, said: "I saw a couple of ambulances, and someone said there were four fire engines - we do not really know what has happened there though." SUPERMARKET EXPANSION PLANS: BUSINESS: PAGE 20 CAPTION(S): Fire crews attended a suspected gas leak at Sainsbury's, in Crosby |
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