Shoppers soaked after sprinkler system fault at Tesco store in Liverpool

12 Jan 2014 18:49

Fire alarm was triggered at Tesco in Park Road in Dingle earlier today

Shoppers ended up getting a soaking after a Liverpool supermarkets sprinkler system went off unexpectedly.

The fire alarm was triggered in Tesco in Park Road in Dingle earlier today.

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service was called at around 16.51pm.

The manager had already evacuated the store before crews arrived.

A spokesman for the service said: We went out to Tesco at 16.51. It was a fire alarm that had gone off. The manager had evacuated the premises.

It was due to the sprinkler system activating. Its believed to have been a fault that triggered it. There was no fire.

One man took to Twitter, saying his mum was among customers who got a soaking by the stores sprinkler system.

He said the fire alarms had gone off and the store was evacuated and that the drama had seen the sprinkler system rain down on customers, including the elderly, who were left standing in the cold outside the store.

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