Fire safety failures at Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary in the U.K. are so serious that it will cost nearly £14m to correct them, according to an article on the News and Star website.
A recent report says fire safety failures stretching back years have the potential to put staff and patients at 'intolerable risk.'
The faults found include:
• Faulty fire safety doors with gaps that would allow smoke to pour from wards to the hospital atrium
• Wrongly labelled 30-minute fire doors used in a ward that should have had 60-minute fire doors
• A defective fire alarm system, which has prompted hourly fire safety checks by staff
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