{"id":862017,"date":"2026-08-20T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862017\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:54:15","slug":"fire-at-icu-in-perths-fiona-stanley-hospital-forces-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862017\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at ICU in Perth&#8217;s Fiona Stanley Hospital forces evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A fire in the intensive care unit at one of Perth&#8217;s major hospitals has left four people needing medical treatment and forced the evacuation of the ICU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The fire at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth&#8217;s south was reported just after 10am within a self-contained room in the ICU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The hospital said the blaze did not spread beyond the room, but that there was some water damage and &#8220;smoke impact&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Because of that, the hospital said &#8220;some services will remain temporarily closed while remedial works are undertaken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Three staff members and a patient are undergoing clinical assessment,&#8221; a spokesperson for the South Metropolitan Health Service said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Parked fire car seen outside Fiona Stanley Hospital.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/633549f122782948a83043f75b01de47.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Firefighters got the blaze under control within half an hour. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The spokesperson later confirmed all four were stable.<\/p>\n<p>Disruption to hospital services<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The hospital said &#8220;cautionary but necessary actions&#8221; were being taken, including patient relocation from the impacted ward, short-term ambulance diversions, and disruption to some surgical and outpatient services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The Emergency Department remains open and accepting patients presenting with medical emergencies,&#8221; the hospital said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;For now, paediatric and adult emergency patients will share a facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Non-urgent visitors are urged to postpone their visit to the hospital, while our staff work to return services to normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">This afternoon, a South Metropolitan Health Service spokesperson said remediation and recovery efforts underway at Fiona Stanley were progressing well, and services were &#8220;steadily returning to normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;From Friday 21 August, all outpatient clinics and elective surgeries will proceed as scheduled,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The Paediatric Emergency Department remains on ambulance bypass while restoration work continues, with paediatric walk-in patients continuing to be cared for in the Adult Emergency Department until it is safe to return to the dedicated facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Importantly, the three staff members and one patient affected by the incident are stable and receiving appropriate care and support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Department of Fire and Emergency Services said the cause of the fire was electrical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire in the intensive care unit at one of Perth&#8217;s major hospitals has left four people needing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1348,48,17724,59218,7770,43,47736,44,17726,17725,86,1158,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":["post-862017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime","tag-emergency-services","tag-fiona-stanley","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-icu","tag-news","tag-perth-breaking-news","tag-perth-emergency","tag-perth-news","tag-police","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}