Patient starts fire at mental unit.Byline: By Tony DeeleyA SANDWELL mental health unit was evacuated after a female patient set fire to her bedding with a lighter. A inquiry was under way today by officials of the Sandwell Mental Health NHS Trust National Health Service Trusts (NHS Trusts) provide many services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. They are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. following the incident, which left the 40-year-old woman with superficial burns to her feet and under her arms and needing treatment for smoke inhalation Smoke Inhalation Definition Smoke inhalation is breathing in the harmful gases, vapors, and particulate matter contained in smoke. Description Smoke inhalation typically occurs in victims or firefighters caught in structural fires. . Her room was gutted. The blaze broke out at the woman's room in the Charlemont House Charlemont House was finished in 1763 and designed by William Chambers for James Caulfeild, the 1st Earl of Charlemont. It is a handsome brick fronted mansion on Dublin's Parnell Square. unit on the site of the Hallam Street Resource Centre in West Bromwich about 9pm yesterday, setting off alarms. A total of 15 patients being treated for mental health problems were evacuated prior to the arrival of firefighters, who spent more than an hour at the scene. Watch Commander Adrian Cherry of West Bromwich fire station said: "The woman, who has been a patient since May, had a cigarette lighter and set fire to her bedding. "When we got there everybody had been evacuated," Mr Cherry added. |
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