2023-08-04 08:38:07
A room fire in a clinic in Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia, injured 28 people, five of them seriously. According to the police, the fire broke out in a patient’s room on Friday night for reasons that have not yet been clarified. The hospital staff quickly began evacuating the rooms, a police spokeswoman said. The part of the building where the fire broke out is no longer usable.
The five seriously injured suffered smoke inhalation, but no burns according to initial findings. The cause of the fire is believed to be among them. How exactly the fire started is still unclear.
Four seriously injured people were transferred to other hospitals for treatment, one injured person was treated in the intensive care unit of the clinic in Hemer, a spokesman for the fire brigade said. Among the injured are patients, but also employees. The police took over the investigation into the cause of the fire.
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