Firefighters carried babies out of Ottawa Hospital, E.R. patients still being diverted 1 day after blaze
The Ottawa Hospital's General campus is still diverting patients to other emergency departments in the city after transferring patients from other units following a fire Friday afternoon, in what the hospital's leader says was an evacuation of the highest order.
![Firefighters carried babies out of Ottawa Hospital, E.R. patients still being diverted 1 day after blaze](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7011657.1698515927!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ottawa-hospital-fire-oct-28.jpg)
![The Ottawa Hospital has declared a code orange and is asking people to avoid its General campus on Smyth Road after a fire broke out in a transformer Friday afternoon. Several fire trucks parked outside of the Ottawa Hospital's General campus.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7011657.1698515927!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ottawa-hospital-fire-oct-28.jpg)
The Ottawa Hospital's General campus is still diverting patients to other emergency departments in the city after transferring patients from other units following a fire Friday afternoon, in what the hospital's leader says was an evacuation of the highest order.