{"id":743635,"date":"2026-08-20T03:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743635\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:42:15","slug":"fairfield-residents-evacuated-from-homes-due-to-water-main-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743635\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairfield residents evacuated from homes due to water main flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radford, who represents the neighbouring Stoneycroft ward, said the &#8220;major flooding&#8221; incident had been affecting Prescot Road, between Fairfield and Stanley Market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was in communication with emergency services and residents affected, confirming &#8220;a number of people&#8221; were being evacuated from their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the area was cordoned off and the Tuebrook Hope Community Centre on Snaefell Avenue was opening up to provide shelter and refreshments for those affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool City Council said a temporary reception centre was &#8220;now in place at Edge Lane Police Station for residents who have been evacuated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It advised that road closures were currently in place at the following locations: Rawlins Street; Holland Street; Green Lane; West Derby Road; Whitecroft; Elm Vale; Balmoral Road; Lily Road; Lauren Road and Holly Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said they were in attendance at the incident, with crews alerted at 17:32 BST and on the scene at 17:36.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said Merseyside Police and North West Ambulance Service were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North West Ambulance Service has been approached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radford, who represents the neighbouring Stoneycroft ward, said the &#8220;major flooding&#8221; incident had been affecting Prescot Road, between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}