Clean-up continues after a water service line break at Lennox and Addington County General Hospital in the early hours of yesterday morning has caused significant water damage on multiple floors of the hospital.
 
Greater Napanee Emergency Services fire Deputy Chief Bill Hammond said the amount of water released was significant causing water from the upper level to flow through to the floors below.

Hammond said there was a great response from the staff that was on site to prevent a hospital evacuation.

"They made a great decision in closing off all of the sections of the hospital and putting towels under doors to keep the water in the hallways," Hammond said.  "Rooms where the water was already flowing into the ceiling tiles they kept those doors closed.  Those rooms did fill up with water  however we were able to migrate that water under our control and not get into other parts of the hospital or valued asset areas."

According to a news release from the hospital, the broken tank caused water to be free-flowing “for quite some time.”

The water caused significant ceiling and flooring damage and may have affected some diagnostic imaging equipment, which will be inspected before being used, the release said.

No patient care rooms were affected by water damage.

Our newsroom has reached out to the hospital for further comment.

The leak was fixed Sunday night and Hammond said they will return to the hospital on Monday morning to complete a final inspection. 

"We left the alarms and the fire watch on," he said.  "The alarms were in trouble because all of the floodings throughout all of the censors.  So our crews will be back to give an all-clear on the building."