{"id":3152,"date":"2026-02-01T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:37:29","slug":"major-incident-declared-as-fire-breaks-out-at-uk-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Major incident declared as fire breaks out at UK hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-breaking\">BREAKING<\/h2>\n<p>A fire has broken out at a hospital in Southampton and patients have been evacuated, as a major incident has been declared.<\/p>\n<p>Roads surrounding the hospital have also been closed by emergency services, it has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning, and fire crews were called to Southampton General Hospital at 5.30am.<\/p>\n<p>According to the hospital, the emergency department was diverting patients away unless their condition \u201cis deemed life or limb threatening\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that visitors are being asked to stay away, while it was cancelling all planned outpatient appointments on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is now contained and no injuries have been reported, the hospital said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 110 firefighters responded to the incident, Hampshire &amp; Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service said, while it is not yet known what caused the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Bottom ad unit --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Custom pseudo content\/category -->\n            <\/div>\n<p>#Major #incident #declared #fire #breaks #hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING A fire has broken out at a hospital in Southampton and patients have been evacuated, as a major incident has been declared. Roads surrounding the hospital have also been closed by emergency services, it has been reported. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning, and fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1798,1591,370,1957,1590,1588,2768],"class_list":{"0":"post-3152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-breaks","9":"tag-declared","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-hospital","12":"tag-incident","13":"tag-major","14":"tag-southampton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}