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Ward evacuated after wheelchair fire scare    4/1/12

Patients were evacuated from a ward in the Western Isles Hospital after a fire scare.

Two Stornoway fire crew was called to the incident yesterday.

Some 29 people were shifted into another ward in the hospital after staff smelt fumes.

Nurses set off a fire alarm and the fumes were traced to a motorised wheelchair belonging to a patient.

Firemen removed the electric wheelchair to the open air and ventilated the building.