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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Tom Duffy & Kate McMullin

Man found collapsed in street sparks huge emergency response

A man found collapsed in a Dovecot street sparked a huge emergency response this afternoon.

Around seven police cars, a number of ambulances and a rapid response vehicle was called to the scene on Ashover Avenue, at around 1pm.

A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said the man is understood to have suffered a medical episode and was taken to hospital.

His condition is not currently known.

The road was cordoned off while the emergency services tended to the man.

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