Maternity Hospital Evacuated After Solar Panel Fire
Pregnant women were evacuated from a hospital in Bristol after a solar panel fire broke out. The Telegraph has more.
Large plumes of black smoke were seen emerging from St Michael’s Hospital, near the city centre.
The maternity ward at the hospital has reportedly been evacuated, with pregnant mothers and babies being led across the road to another building.
The cause of the fire, which has now been extinguished, is currently unknown.
Footage shared on social media showed women cradling babies being escorted past fire engines and under police tape to safety.
Jess Hutchinson, 22, whose waters have broken, told the BBC it was “scary” hearing the fire start on the roof.
Matt Burden, from Weston-super-Mare, was inside the maternity unit when the fire started.
He told the BBC that his wife was in labour with their third baby and he was “really eager to get back” to her.
He said: “I went out to get some food, came back and obviously the alarm went off. They said all partners had to leave. Everyone was going down the fire exit quite fast.
A BBC forecaster shared a still image from a skycam located a short distance away, which showed the scorched remains of the hospital’s rooftop solar panels.
Ian Fergusson said there was “virtually nothing left of the rooftop solar panel array after this fire”.
He added: “A very worrying and scary event for folks at the maternity hospital.”
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One Telegraph commenter attributes the fire to nesting pigeons, another to micro-cracks from people walking on the panels and another commenter queries the safety record of electric devices saving the planet…
“…The panels catch fire, the cars catch fire, the windmills catch fire, the bicycles catch fire, the substations catch fire.”
But Miliband’s brain and sense of service to the country resolutely remains a damp squib. How Two Tier must wish he could get rid of the embarrassment; even a minister who said and did nothing would be better
Nah. 2TK has just signed the UK up to follow EU net zero rules. It shows he does not disagree with Crazy Eddie. He could re-shuffle Ed to any other department and the current net zero madness would continue.
Maybe that’s what they meant by a Chinese kill switch
For balance, we must remember that hospital fires also took place long before renewable generators…
So?
Sarcasm from HL, JXB.
Thanks M A k.
Ah.Hard to tell these days.
Yes can be confusing sometimes.🥴
Lol, sarcasm?
That’s like saying people died before they were vaccinated… nothing to see here!
Two Tier et al, and anyone in this government with a pinch of healthy skepticism, would see the utility in examining background baseline incidence rates to see if there’s a significant increase in fires.
BBC reports UK Met Office recorded highest UK May temperature EVER! at its weather station site on St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol.
More evidence of climate change – worse than we thought.
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You could read it as a sign or fable. In a building where babies being born the green agenda energy source mysteriously catches fire. Solar panels are a complete piss-take in this country anyway. Look at how idiotic they make you look. Everyone the world over knows that the sun hardly ever shines in this country and if it does then everything melts just like things come to a halt with an inch of snow.
And the toxic smoke? What about the risks to those downwind?
Perhaps “going up in flames” is how the so-called renewables are INTENDED to produce energy?
Another nuts zero disaster caused by green communist hippy mindsets. Idiots and fools. Stupid and ignorant people we have become