{"id":303676,"date":"2018-10-03T05:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303676"},"modified":"2018-10-03T05:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T05:40:27","slug":"kolkata-fire-at-calcutta-medical-college-and-hospital-250-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kolkata-fire-at-calcutta-medical-college-and-hospital-250-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: Fire At Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, 250 evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/kolkata-fire-at-calcutta-medical-college-and-hospital-250-evacuated\/kolkata-medical-college\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303680\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303680 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college-485x360.png 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college-696x516.png 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college-567x420.png 567w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kolkata-medical-college.png 903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a>A fire broke out at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the sources, the fire is said to have started in the Department of Pharmacy on the ground floor at around 8am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an eyewitness, many patients reportedly tried to jump out of the window to save themselves. Some of them being taken out of the building with their saline drips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fire department was alerted after smoke was spotted from the building that houses the pharmacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ten fire engines, Kolkata police officers and West Bengal&#8217;s disaster management authority officials\u00a0were rushed to the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 250 patients were evacuated and moved to safety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All patients are said to be safe and no casualties have been reported so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Calcutta Medical College is one of the oldest hospitals of Kolkata. There was chaos and panic in the area after the fire broke out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reason behind the incident is not known yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the second such incident in Kolkata in the last one month. The city\u2019s multi-storey Bagri Market had witnessed a fire on September 16, which gutted nearly 1,000 shops and business establishments. Thirty fire tenders were rushed to the spot to contain the blaze which kept raging for over 12 hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday morning. As per the sources, the fire is said to have started in the Department of Pharmacy on the ground floor at around 8am. According to an eyewitness, many patients reportedly tried to jump out of the window to save themselves. 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