Fire crews have evacuated forty patients and staff from Sunderland Royal Hospital after 10ml of ammonia leaked from a fridge.
The ammonia was being stored in a drugs room on the sixth floor of the hospital.
Sixteen community firefighters and operational support officers from Millfield, Farringdon and Ryehill joined Sunderland fire crews at the scene.
The safety room was sealed off and the refridgerator was placed in a protective drum which was rinsed and decontaminated.
The leak created ammonia gas which fire crews spent sixty minutes clearing up, before staff and patients were allowed back in the hopsital.
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