HSE staff evacuated after blaze breaks out in Cork office building

NEARLY 70 Health Service Executive staff are to be relocated to temporary offices next week after a fire broke out yesterday in the building they normally occupy in Cork city.

It is suspected that the blaze may have been sparked by an electrical fault in a photocopying machine.

A fire brigade spokesman said four units were sent to fight the blaze at the HSE’s Áras Sláinte (formerly Farm Centre) offices at Dennehy’s Cross. The alarm was raised at 10.53am and when the first unit arrived four minutes later they saw flames coming out of the window of a photocopying room at the rear of the first floor.