{"id":125874,"date":"2025-05-23T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125874\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:57:10","slug":"patients-evacuated-to-university-building-during-maternity-hospital-fire-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125874\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients evacuated to university building during maternity hospital fire in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

A large fire broke out on the roof of the hospital<\/p>\n

Patients and members of staff were evacuated to a university building after a fire broke out on the roof of St Michael’s Hospital yesterday, Thursday, May 22.<\/p>\n

The hospital, on Southwell Street, partially evacuated staff and patients around 4.30pm.<\/p>\n

Patients and staff were safely moved to the nearby Life Sciences building, part of the University of Bristol<\/a>, as fire crews battled the fire.<\/p>\n

They were moved and given basic supplies during what was described as a “stressful” time while emergency services dealt with the blaze<\/p>\n

Professor Jeremy Tavar\u00e9, Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, said: “We\u2019re immensely proud of our staff\u2019s response, acting swiftly to welcome patients and hospital staff into our Life Sciences building while emergency services tackled the fire<\/p>\n

“Our campus, school and faculty teams immediately got to work to provide a safe and welcoming space, alongside basic supplies like blankets, food and water, during what must have been an incredibly stressful and worrying time for all involved.<\/p>\n

“While the NHS<\/a> and emergency services are the real heroes, I witnessed first-hand the amazing care and compassion shown by our staff and cannot thank them enough.”<\/p>\n

The fire was confirmed to have been safely extinguished by early evening with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n

\"SmokeSmoke and flames coming from St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol
\n(Image: Submitted\/Bristol Live)<\/p>\n

The hospital was confirmed to have reopened after a huge fire involving solar panels broke out.<\/p>\n

Avon Fire and Rescue<\/a> Service said that a fault in the solar panels on the roof of the building caused the fire.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Avon Fire and Rescue Service said: “Following a fire in a hospital on Southwell Street, Bristol yesterday evening (Thursday, May 22), Avon Fire & Rescue Services\u2019 Fire Investigation Team have established the cause of the fire to be accidental due to a fault in the solar panels, on the roof of the building.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters safely extinguished the fire on the roof and no other part of the hospital was affected by the fire.”<\/p>\n

Photos and videos taken at the scene reveal a huge emergency service response rushed to the blaze but, despite the ongoing incident, at 6.39pm, firefighters stopped for one minute.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Avon Fire and Rescue Service said fire crews observed one minute silence in honour of the deaths during the major blaze in Bicester last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large fire broke out on the roof of the hospital Patients and members of staff were evacuated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[18680,381,748,393,12264,4884,16,15,55549],"class_list":{"0":"post-125874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-fire-and-rescue","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fires","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-university-hospitals-bristol-nhs-foundation-trust"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114558444722682940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}