The fire has been contained and no-one was injured. Patients were evacuated from affected wards and access at A&E was restricted to those with life or limb-threatening conditions.<\/p>\n
Dean Wedge’s 86-year-old mother was one of the patients evacuated from a ward, having undergone a procedure on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Wedge said he had seen his mother since, adding that she had been “very panicked” at the time.<\/p>\n
“She can’t really walk, so obviously she needed aid and assistance to move her. <\/p>\n
“I think it was just a case of trying to get everybody out as quickly as possible and away from any danger.”<\/p>\n
“Everybody was moved extremely quickly and obviously professionally.”<\/p>\n
He said there was “literally just beds everywhere” in the other parts of the hospital.<\/p>\n
“Just corridors after corridor with beds,” he said. “It looks like something out of a war zone that you see on TV but everybody’s doing what they can for them.<\/p>\n
“I can see that they’re all doing a wonderful job in there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fire has been contained and no-one was injured. Patients were evacuated from affected wards and access at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-403721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}