{"id":529957,"date":"2026-04-14T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529957\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:08:11","slug":"around-50-firefighters-tackle-blaze-at-aberdeen-hospital-site-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529957\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 50 firefighters tackle blaze at Aberdeen hospital site overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 50 firefighters have been tackling a large fire on the grounds of a hospital in Aberdeen overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Nine fire appliances, plus a high-reach vehicle and other specialist appliances, remain at the scene of a disused office building, Westholme, on the Woodend Hospital site after being called out at 9.50pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>No patients or staff currently occupy the office, and it lies around 60 metres from the closest hospital building.<\/p>\n<p>The public has been urged to avoid the area, and nearby residents are being urged to keep windows and doors closed due to a large volume of smoke.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f95529814d02c4572e50604fceda2636-1776153977.jpg\" width=\"3456\" height=\"2304\"   alt=\"Around 50 firefighters tackled the fire at the Woodend Hospital building on Eday Road in Aberdeen.\"\/>Jasper ImageAround 50 firefighters tackled the fire at the Woodend Hospital building on Eday Road in Aberdeen. Jasper Image<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for NHS Grampian said: \u201cFirefighters were called to a disused office building on the Woodend Hospital site, in Aberdeen, at around 9.50pm this evening. No patients or staff currently occupy this building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe building, Westholme, lies around 60 metres from the closest hospital building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur colleagues in the Scottish Fire &amp; Rescue Service are currently tackling the blaze and have advised nearby residents to keep windows and doors closed and for people to avoid the area at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An SFRS spokesperson said: \u201cAround 50 firefighters are currently tackling a fire at the Woodend Hospital building on Eday Road in Aberdeen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ab2f98adba4b1c27a11ad2716fbb8cd0-1776153688.jpg\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\"   alt=\"Around 50 firefighters tackled the fire at the Woodend Hospital building on Eday Road in Aberdeen.\"\/>Jasper ImageAround 50 firefighters tackled the fire at the Woodend Hospital building on Eday Road in Aberdeen. Jasper Image<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearby residents are urged to keep windows and doors closed due to large volumes of smoke, and to avoid the area at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe currently have nine fire appliance plus a high-reach vehicle and other specialist appliances at the scene after receiving the call just before 9.50pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency services will be on scene overnight and into Tuesday morning as we deal with this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 50 firefighters have been tackling a large fire on the grounds of a hospital in Aberdeen overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-529957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529957","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=529957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}