{"id":912549,"date":"2026-04-23T04:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/912549\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:42:25","slug":"man-injured-after-fire-breaks-out-in-toilet-of-royal-victoria-hospital-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/912549\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured after fire breaks out in toilet of Royal Victoria Hospital \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man has been injured after a fire broke out in the toilet of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service remained at the scene of the incident on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The blaze started in a bathroom on the ground floor of the Accident and Emergency department at around 6.45pm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A number of patients and staff were evacuated from the emergency department while fire crews tackled the blaze.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/elderly-northern-ireland-couple-face-100000-fine-if-they-fail-to-demolish-hilltop-home-RVKVOCFCZNCHRE3CHNZAYIKJEQ\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Elderly Northern Ireland couple face &#xA3;100,000 fine if they fail to demolish hilltop home\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776919342_932_LX2YX2Q5IVHPJBJH5ZDZHT6TLU.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/tricolours-flown-at-new-belfast-housing-development-condemned-as-antithesis-of-what-flag-represents-A6C42KAJBBAZZFAZE5CLNSNLCU\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Tricolours flown at new Belfast housing development condemned as &#x2018;antithesis&#x2019; of what flag represents\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776919343_885_S2AZNUF6RVFVXN5WWPXT6QNUD4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOne male was injured and we had four pumping appliances there, the area was smoke logged,\u201d a spokesperson for the NIFRS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The spokesperson added the incident was expected to be wound down on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"NIFRS in attendance at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on Wednesday. PIC: Mal McCann\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/K6ISYM6ZBZDV3NFOA2V4AC3I6I.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>NIFRS in attendance at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on Wednesday. PIC: Mal McCann <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The condition of the injured man is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The PSNI was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been injured after a fire broke out in the toilet of the Royal Victoria Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[7916,1144,15288,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-912549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-nifrs","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-royal-victoria-hospital","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116452193404910570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912549","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=912549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}