CALLOUT: Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service. Picture: STUART WALKER.
EMERGENCY services have been called to a suspected gas leak in Penrith.
A total of three fire engines were sent to Southend Road, Penrith at 10.50am on Sunday after reports of a gas leak.
A spokesman from Cumbria Fire and Rescue said: "Crews evacuated a building and checked for signs of gas using two breathing apparatus and gas monitoring equipment.
"Crews were in attendance for about an hour and forty minutes."
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