Royal Hampshire County Hospital and Hampshire Fire and Rescue faced an almighty uphill battle to control a major fire that broke out at around 4:00 this afternoon. The blaze began in a building which housed a MRI scanner and 2 CT scanners, costing excess of £800,000. Around fifty people were evacuated and moved to safer areas of the hospital.
One hundred firefighters tackled the blaze which is now under control. Eyewitnesses tweeted about flames and smoke around the hospital grounds. The hospital followed it's major incident plan and nobody was injured, although the fire was extremely close to spreading to the rest of the wards. A spokesperson mentioned that "staff were quite brilliant in evacuating the public from the building".
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