{"id":452753,"date":"2026-04-25T05:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/452753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:27:22","slug":"belfast-hospital-fire-horror-as-man-dies-after-blaze-inside-emergency-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/452753\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast hospital fire horror as man dies after blaze inside emergency department"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency services were called to the scene after a blaze broke out inside a bathroom.<\/p>\n

Lauren Harte <\/strong> and Annette Belcher<\/strong><\/p>\n

09:43, 23 Apr 2026Updated 09:44, 23 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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A fire started at the Royal Victoria Hospital (Image: Daily Mirror)<\/p>\n

A man has died following a fire in the emergency department of a Belfast hospital. Emergency services responded to the blaze at the Royal Victoria Hospital on Wednesday evening after a fire broke out inside a bathroom. The incident triggered an immediate response from multiple agencies as they worked to contain the situation within the medical facility.<\/p>\n

Police, ambulance, and fire crews arrived on the scene shortly before 6.45pm to tackle the fire. The blaze occurred specifically within the accident and emergency (A&E) unit of the hospital. Authorities have confirmed the fatality following the incident, which saw a significant emergency presence at the site throughout the evening, reports BelfastLive.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reports said a man was injured following a fire in the toilets of the ED and was being treated for burns. He has since died in hospital.<\/p>\n

In an update on Thursday, a PSNI spokesperson said: “Police and fire crews were called to the Emergency Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital on Wednesday, 22nd April, at around 6.50pm.<\/p>\n

“A man in his 30s has since passed away in hospital. This is being treated as a sudden death and not suspicious at this time.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said four pumping appliances and around 20 personnel were deployed to the scene.<\/p>\n

A NIFRS statement said: \u201cOne male was injured and we had four pumping appliances there, the area was smoke logged.”<\/p>\n

It was reported that crews left the scene at around 9.10pm.<\/p>\n

The ED’S main waiting area and reception were closed and patients attending were directed via a side entrance with some ambulances diverted to other city hospitals for a short time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were called to the scene after a blaze broke out inside a bathroom. Lauren Harte and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,30,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-452753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-psni","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116463694599089263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}