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Patients evacuated as fire breaks out in Chichester hospital
Patients had to be evacuated from St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester on 19th June after a fire broke out in a laboratory.
Firefighters attended the incident in the pathology department at around 2pm yesterday and took several hours to contain the situation. The incident was treated as a hazardous chemical incident by West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service.
Cathy Stone, Director of Nursing and Patient Safety at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, said that some appointments had to be cancelled due to the incident but most of the hospital was able to operate as normal. Ms Stone added: “Services are back to normal, although regrettably some of our outpatients were affected today – we will contact everyone involved to rearrange those appointments at the earliest opportunity. Whilst the public would have seen a great deal of activity from the emergency services, the majority of our hospital services were unaffected.”
There were no casualties reported in the incident.
School evacuated as fire destroys buildings
Around 200 pupils at school in south Wales had to be evacuated when a blaze broke out on 19th June.
The fire started in an area which housed the ICT suite at Betws Primary School, near Bridgend, at around 2.30pm.
One section of the school was destroyed but the nursery, infants and Flying Start buildings were not damaged.
Police advised local residents to remain indoors, keeping windows shut due to the huge amount of thick black smoke coming from the fire.
A spokesman for Bridgend council said: “This has been an upsetting incident for all pupils, and staff and council officers are arranging support for those children who need it. The council is grateful for the prompt response of school staff and the emergency services. Council officers are on the scene and will be working with the police and fire service to find the cause of the blaze and secure the area.”
More than 1300 schools each year suffers a fire large enough to be attended by the local fire services and 56% of these were classed as non-accidental. The average cost of school fires was £58 million per year between 2000 and 2004. This means that the odds of a school experiencing a fire are 1 in 20! This does not account for the fires that are not reported or put out by members of staff.
Most of these fires are small and do not spread from the source of the fire, but the unpredictability of fire means this may not be the case. As the large number of fires are not accidental, it is important that you look at arson reduction measures.
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Fire at substation leaves hundreds without electricity
Hundreds of residents in Twickenham were left without electricity on 11th June after a faulty fuse caught fire in an electric substation.
The incident in Radnor Road left at least 226 people without power over night and the following morning.
A spokesperson for UK Power Networks said: “The cause of the interruption was traced to a fault on a piece of equipment at our substation which has now been permanently replaced to maintain reliable power supplies for our customers.”
It is thought that the probable cause of the fire is due to the equipment being old or incorrectly installed.
Fire crews from Sutton, Kingston and Twickenham attended the incident and spent around two hours at the scene.
A firefighter from Twickenham, who attended the incident, said: “The building was 95 per cent empty, just with this substation in it. There was a lot of smoke and you could see the residents were fairly worried looking out.”
The UK Power Networks spokesman added: “For safety reasons, our engineers had to isolate power supplies to 226 customers at 10.26pm last night so repair work could take place. This work is still on-going. We appreciate how frustrating it is to be without power and we would like to apologise to affected customers for the inconvenience caused.”
Blaze destroys Historic Cambridgeshire wedding venue
A huge fire has destroyed one of Cambridgeshire’s most popular wedding venues.
The fire broke out at the historic Chilford Hall in Linton at around 3am on 13th June. 60 firefighters attended the fire and spent several hours battling the 50ft flames.
Firefighters managed to save the house, wine store and the shop. The 18th-century Linton Barn and the Grade II-listed Great Hall, The Pavilion and Gallery were all destroyed in the fire.
Simon Alper, who worked on the renovations of the Hall for many years said: “There’s a building in the middle which is made of wood and you have a very short space of time to get to it if it catches fire, so in the middle of the night it caught hold. The fire brigade have been brilliant to save the winery and the study centre.”
The Management at Chilford Hall have been trying to book marquees in order to fulfil bookings including marriages and major conferences which are to take place in the coming weeks and months.
Mr Alper added “We are getting on the phone talking to clients and sorting out whatever we can for them. That’s the business we’re in, of looking after people – although we’ve had this devastating fire, we still have to look after them. We’re so sorry for them, we’ll do whatever we can.”
Steve Elve from Linton fire station, said: “The fire was well-established where it was set so in those buildings it was impossible to stop. Because of the hard work of the crews we managed to stop it spreading further. It’s a business everyone knows and is locally proud of so to see it lost this way will be devastating for the local area. We hope we have managed to salvage some of the operation for them to continue trading.”
Two men have been arrested in connection with the blaze and are being held at Parkside police station on suspicion of arson.