Emergency services including an air ambulance have arrived on a Merseyside street after a man collapsed this morning.
Ambulance officials confirmed they sent five vehicles including the air ambulance to the scene of the incident in Bootle .
A North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) spokeswoman said the service was called to Spenser Street just before 9am on Monday.
She said two rapid response vehicles, a land ambulance, air ambulance and advanced paramedics were called to reports "someone had collapsed" in the residential street.
The spokeswoman said a male patient had suffered " a medical episode" and has been taken to hospital.
Pictures sent in by an ECHO reader showed the air ambulance parked in a nearby field and ambulance vehicles parked in the street.
One witness said: "All go in Bootle, air ambulance in attendance."
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