From: Ian blenkharn@ianblenkharn.com
Category: News & information
Date: 27 Mrz 2008
Time: 12:10:10 +0100
Remote Name: 81.151.62.37
A hospital fire is believed to have been started deliberately.
Firefighters attended Eastbourne District General Hospital yesterday after a fire alarm was activated at 6.40pm.
The alarm had been set off in a computer suite but when they arrived firefighters found a fire raging inside a locked clinical waste room.
The entire lower ground floor was smoke logged. Crews used breathing apparatus to enter the building and bring the fire under control.
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There are obvious and some considerable risks to firefighters when tackling a fire involving clinical wastes. There will also be particular difficulties in clearing up after an incident, that may go far beyond the basic simplicity of a spill kit
I wonder how many clinical waste producers and waste contractors have considered these risks, or discussed with their local fire service the implications and/or warnings necessary for the protection of fire crews?