Four fire incidents have occurred in the last 24 hours at the Nice General Hospital, which led to an investigation by the Fire Department officers into the possibility of sabotage, as reported by ERT.

In a statement issued by the Nice Hospital, it is stated that the three fires occurred from last night at 11:30 and during the night.

The first incident occurred in the early hours of August 17.

The full hospital announcement:

“Yesterday 8/18/2023 at approximately 23.30 at the General Hospital of Nice “Agios Panteleimon”, in the connecting corridor between TEP and Mandouvalos Building, a fire broke out from unknown causes in a cluster of cardboard boxes. The security staff and technicians of the hospital tried with portable fire extinguishers while at the same time the Fire Service was notified which completed the work of extinguishing the fire.

At 01.40 on 19/8/2023 a new source of fire was detected in the area of ​​the A Surgical Clinic in a pile of papers. The fire was tackled immediately and completely extinguished by the staff using portable fire extinguishers and throwing water from the fire hydrants. In addition, the Immediate Action of the Hellenic Police was called and checks were carried out in all internal and external areas of the hospital by teams of Dia and security personnel. The exit from the hospital was temporarily blocked to facilitate investigations.

At 04.30 on 19/8/2023 a fire broke out outside the hospital near the entrance staircase of the building housing the doctors’ dormitories, in a bin of dirty clothing. The fire was dealt with entirely by the security personnel who had orders for patrols using portable means and throwing water from a fire hydrant, while the Immediate Action of the Greek Police was again called and a patrol car and the force of the Dias team arrived on the spot and carried out checks on all internal spaces of the Hospital as well as in the surrounding area.

Throughout the night, a team of the investigative department of the Piraeus Fire Service was conducting an investigationin order to establish the causes of the first temporal event.

In no case was a patient at risk, no health problem occurred to a patient or hospital employee, and no area of ​​the hospital had to be evacuated.

Small-scale damage was caused to the hospital’s hotel equipment.”