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Fire breaks out in hospital operating room

Hospital Safety Connection, January 25, 2005

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An electrical fire broke out this week in an operating room at Hartford (CT) Hospital, channel NBC 30 reported.

No one was in the operating room when the fire started. No one was injured. Patients were also unaffected by the fire, hospital officials said.

It is still unclear how the fire started.



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