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How an overheating television apparently started a fire and a sizeable subsequent explosion at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital last September, the ensuing evacuation, and the valuable lessons learned, were the subject of an informative recent seminar presentation by Mike Ralph, at the time the hospital's estates and facilities director. Jonathan Baillie reports on the presentation, given at a joint IHEEM and NAHFO "Fire Safety within Healthcare Premises" seminar in London.
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