Another fire in ward block
PA Dunedin The Dunedin police are investigating the sixth in a series of fires in the ward block at Dunedin Hospital on Wednesday evening. Sprinklers extinguished the fire, which started about 8.45 p.m. in the dietitian’s office on the seventh floor. Fire Commander F. T. Rowe said the fire was deliberately lit. The sprinklers controlled the. fire well, he said, and fireman did not need to put out the blaze. Fire and water damage were minimal.
The metrical superintendent of Dunedin Hospital, Dr T. McKendrick. said the fire did not cause any problems for the patients, because the wards were some distance from it. The fire is the first for more than a week after a series of five fires in five days. Other incidents which have occurred recently at the hospital ward block include taps being left on and power to a refrigerator in which blood was stored being turned off.
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