Fire crews pumped half a million litres of water out of the boiler room at a Black Country primary school after it flooded.

Firefighters were called to Old Park Primary School in Wednesbury last night after almost 20ft of water filled the underground room, wrecking three industrial size boilers and the school’s central heating system.

Headteacher Liz Adams said today she hoped the school would reopen as planned on Monday, but engineers are still looking into what caused it.

“I don’t want to alarm parents,” she said. We will hopefully be open on Monday. At the moment we still don’t know what caused it.” Firefighters were called to the school in Old Park Road, after the caretaker Dave Ellis raised the alarm just before 8pm yesterday.