Fire at Medical Center
According to City Room and the New York Post (whose take on the story is fittingly more sensationalist), two workers suffered serious burns this morning at Columbia University Medical Center. One worker suffered burns over 70 percent of his body, and was in critical condition at Harlem Hospital.
The fire took place at 9:44 am this morning. According to City Room, the workers were cleaning pipes leading to a hot water tank, when a halogen lamp was turned on, causing a fire as it interacted with the cleaning solution. The man with the most critical burns was taken to Harlem Hospital after “taking a turn for the worst,” an official said. Bwog hopes to have more shortly.
Tags: medical center
26 June 2009 @ 11:52 AM · 13 comments
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does anyone else find it strange that two workers injured at a hospital were taken to another hospital for treatment?
cityroom, they were taking them to weill cornell’s burn unit, but then one of them got really critical so they diverted to harlem.
makes sense not having a burn unit at columbia when there’s already one at cornell. but still weird.
CUMC doesn’t have a burn trauma unit. The only ones in Manhattan are at Weil-Cornell (where the victims were originally headed) and Harlem Hospital center (where they wound up when one victim’s condition worsened).
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is not a hospital.
haha. CUMC not a hospital …
yourself, twit. The Hospital is the NY Presbyterian, shared by Cornell and CU. That is not the same as CUMC.
the fire was in a research building, not the hospital. but good try.
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because it would be so difficult to assume someone working in research building would be taken to ny pres two buildings down…
not the point. See #4,6,9-12.