14 children evacuated after fire breaks out in hospital

Fourteen children, including a number of babies, had to be evacuated from a paediatric unit last night after a fire broke out at one of the country’s busiest hospitals.

The fire broke out at 6.45pm in a room located over one of the hospital laboratories at University Hospital Limerick.

The laboratory is situated over the paediatric unit, which was evacuated as a precaution and 14 children were moved to other areas of the hospital. The room where the fire broke out is where all of the electrics for the unit are stored.