Update !! Fire at former St.Michaels College, Leeds

Fire crews from around the Leeds district attended the old college site on St. Johns Rd. Woodhouse in Leeds at around 8.20pm yesterday 26/05/2014.

Firefighters in action at the scene

The top two floors of the property were well alight when the first crews arrived. There was smoke logging to many other parts of the building. Breathing apparatus teams were deployed inside to ventilate.

Leeds Aerial Ladder Platform in use

Crews mainly used water from the Aerial appliance from Leeds to tackle the flames. People living near the old college site said flames were pouring from the upper floors.

Breathing apparatus wearers enter the building

The fire could be seen across Leeds as the flames turned to clouds of smoke. Fire crews are still damping down at the scene where Police closed the road to traffic.

Fire appliances from Leeds,Stanningley,Hunslet and Gipton attended.

Leeds council planning chiefs had turned down plans for a £40m scheme to revamp the building earlier this month.
The plans would have also seen the original 1908 college building preserved as part of a mixed scheme for apartments and student flats but there were fears that the apartments would be too small.