Nursing Home Fire - Knutsford

Once again a Fire Sprinkler Installation could have prevented this fire at a nursing home in Knutsford.

Crews were called to the property just after 11pm on 1 October, where they found a first-floor bedroom well alight and smoke in the main corridor. They managed to help three residents out by the internal staircase and the other three using the external staircase.

A total of seven residents were then taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. The fire was extinguished around an hour later with one hose reel jet and a positive pressure ventiliation fan.

The bedroom was extensively damaged but the fire door prevented further spread, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said.