It was around 9:30 p.m. when the fire broke out in the hospital newsstands on June 25, 2011, following a power failure in a refrigerator.
The blaze – although limited thanks to the automatic fire detectors on site and the rapid mobilization of firefighters on the incident – completely destroyed the main reception area and severely affected the A&E service and fracture clinics after s ‘to be propagated to the attic.
Classified as a “major incident”, it took four hours to bring itself under control and emergency patients were diverted to other nearby hospitals.
Speaking at a press conference the next day, communications manager Sarah Turner-Saint said: “The hospital will be in a better position later today to see how much we can reopen. In some regions, communications have been cut, part of which concerns the pharmacy, which will present major difficulties.
“The main entrance will be closed for a long time – we have no idea when it will be operational.
“We recognize that patients will be inconvenienced, but we intend to keep this to a minimum and people will be available to help you get to where you need to be. The services can be found in different parts of the site, but we aim to keep things as close as possible. “
She added: “There is good news, the firefighters have completed their investigation which started in the early hours of the morning and identified via CCTV that the fire started because of a refrigerator in the newsagents and has been transferred. through.
“The construction of the entrance did its job and limited the damage – it could have been a lot worse.
“Our major incident plan had worked well, everyone was fantastic and the team worked well. The fire and rescue service did an amazing job, working extremely hard for 4 hours to make sure the fire was out.
Marking the anniversary today, the hospital shared videos of the aftermath of the fire on its Facebook page.
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Source: www.thestar.co.uk
This notice was published: 2021-06-25 16:38:22
