IT Room Fire Forces Evacuation of Hospital Buildings

Electrical fire and smoke leads hospital officials to evacuate two office buildings


As if the resurgent cases of COVID-19 weren’t enough. A Pennsylvania hospital also had to contend with an early-morning fire that prompted the evacuation of two buildings.

 

An electrical fire in an information technology room at St. Mary Medical Center recently forced the evacuation of two office buildings at the Middletown complex, according to the Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times in Levittown, Pa. The 348-bed hospital did not have to be evacuated, and no injuries were reported.

 

Firefighters responded to the 8:05 a.m. report of a building fire at the hospital, said a Middletown official. They found smoke on the first floor of the St. Clare building at the hospital, which is connected to the Franciscan office building. Both buildings were evacuated of everyone who wasn't already undergoing a medical procedure.

 

Hospital officials said that smoke but no flames was detected coming from a locked data closet in the second level of the St. Clare medical office building on the St. Mary campus.

 

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November 23, 2020



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