Affected buildings at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital were evacuated safely after a fire began in the MRI building. Despite rumours, the blaze was not started by a gas leak but is thought to have been caused by a faulty MRI machine.
Many emergency vehicles were called to the scene and are continuing to work into the night despite having gotten the fire “under control” over five hours ago.
Roads surrounding there area are still closed but many of the buildings in the area, including some of the housing on the Main Campus here at the University of Winchester, that were evacuated have been allowed to return.
I managed to get a few photos of the fire at about seven o’clock this evening; you can see the smoke coming out of the buildings and still could as I left at just gone ten.
Taken near the West Down Students Village, looking down towards many of the main hospital buildings; many of these emergency service vehicles were still there when I left.
As seen from the car park by the MRI building, where you can still see smoke coming from the direction of the A&E. (I had to sneak in to get this – I went up some stairs but there was a security guard on the main entrance who started walking over to me as I left)
This is all true to the best of knowledge and nosy reporter skills at 22:10, i.e. the last time I walked past the hospital. You can also find more info (and a much more interesting photo) here: http://hpwinchester.blogspot.com/2011/12/fire-at-winchester-hospital.html or here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-16119106 and read all the tweets from my live twitter updates here: http://twitter.com/HazGotNews4You
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