Greater than 100 sufferers evacuated after Rockland nursing residence fireplace
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“The workers has been extraordinarily cooperative, and so they’re in all probability actually the true heroes, shifting sufferers earlier than we even received right here.”
Fireplace crews evacuated greater than 100 sufferers from a nursing residence facility in Rockland after a 3-alarm fireplace Saturday afternoon.
The third-floor fireplace at Webster Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Heart on Webster Avenue was largely held in verify by the sprinkler system, Rockland Fireplace Chief Scott Duffey advised reporters on the scene, however sufferers have been affected by the “very heavy smoke situation.”
Webster Park workers started shifting the 102 sufferers, together with 22 on the third ground, earlier than crews even arrived.
“The workers was extremely responsive, engaged on eradicating the sufferers to secure areas, to the stairwells, getting them out of the smoke,” Duffey stated. “The workers has been extraordinarily cooperative, and so they’re in all probability actually the true heroes, shifting sufferers earlier than we even received right here.”
Crews initially acquired the report of the hearth alarm activation round 4 p.m. Saturday. The fireplace introduced practically a dozen companies to the scene, together with Mansfield and Scituate crews, to assist with evacuations from the power. No sufferers or fireplace personnel have been injured, Duffey stated.
“It’s shifting sufferers which might be bedridden, which might be aged, a little bit bit much less cell than your youthful inhabitants,” Duffey stated. “They did want help coming down, largely carrying them to the second ground, into the primary ground, the place they’d be secure from the smoke.”
As a consequence of water injury, the power might be “shut down for a while,” Duffey stated. An ambulance strike crew relocated the sufferers Saturday night time, in accordance with Scituate Firefighters Native 1464, which labored with different native companies to move the residents.
The fireplace originated in a typical space close to the nurses’ station, Duffey stated, however the trigger is underneath investigation. The state Fireplace Marshal’s workplace recognized a potential trigger as {an electrical} occasion within the ceiling of a third-floor rest room, probably associated to a ceiling fan, per WCVB.
In July, 10 individuals died after a fireplace on the Gabriel Home, an assisted residing facility in Fall River. The power was criticized for not changing recalled sprinkler heads, and residents accused Gabriel Home of different security considerations in a lawsuit.
Rockland fireplace completes quarterly inspections of Webster Park, Duffey stated, calling it an “wonderful facility” with “often minor, little points, nothing ever main at this facility.”
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