A woman and three children have died in a house fire in Merseyside, the emergency services have confirmed.
Six fire engines and eight firefighters scrambled to the scene of an ‘intense fire which was spreading rapidly’ at a semi-detached property in Bootle at 3.38am.
Crew members wearing breathing apparatus rushed inside, where they found four people ‘showing no signs of life’.
Another person who was discovered outside the home was rushed to hospital by the North West Ambulance Service.
Shocked neighbours say they heard desperate screams of a woman and that despite efforts to help they were unable to.
Another local, who witnessed the blaze,
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