Surrey Memorial Hospital ER shut by flooding after water main break :
 

Surrey Memorial Hospital ER shut by flooding after water main break

Twenty five emergency patients have been relocated to other parts of Surrey Memorial Hospital, surgeries are being cancelled and the fire department is on site in an emergency responder role after a water main break caused flooding.

The flooding has crippled the ability to provide patient care in the emergency department as well as diagnostic imaging and surgeries in nearby operating rooms.

The rest of the hospital is open but affected areas are now in decontamination mode as the water main break sent water surging into the emergency room and the adjacent diagnostic imaging department. It's not known whether expensive radiology equipment has been ruined by the flooding.

Up to 200 emergency patients who would normally be seen in the Surrey emergency department today are now being diverted to other hospitals in the Fraser region. Visitors to the hospital are taking detours to enter.


A construction worker operating heavy equipment apparently cut the main water supply. The work is related to a $513 million tower being built as part of the hospital expansion. A five-times bigger emergency department is expected to open sometime next year and the rest of the eight-story tower will open in 2014.

damn :( This is not good for all those people who need emergency care. I hope they resolve this in a timely manner.

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holy crap

my g/f is a nurse and got called in to work. It was a code orange so everyone who works at the hospital had to come in on thier day off. Its a fuckin mess there right now.

That's an excellent point you've brought up.

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Wow.

jesus christ that's horrifying
Hope the hospital gets back to normal quick.. and hope that construction worker gets his shit together

Holy crap.

Holy smokes!

The insurance claim on the construction company is going to be in the tens of millions...

Drove by to pick up my brother from school, thing looked like a mess even from far away

cut the main water supply... of the city of surrey? Jesus.

Not even...all they'd need to do is shut down a couple water valves to isolate that section off....the only problem with that though is that the construction worker isn't allowed to touch a city water valve, so they would have had to wait for surreys dept if water to get there to shut it down. But by the looks of it...they cut through a huuuuge watermain...that construction workers company will be billed for all damages to the hospital by the hospitals insurance company though

How long before we see a shark swimming in the water in one of those pics? :troll:

sharks have already been spotted there :troll:

:fuuuuu: the look on the construction worker's face upon realizing what he had done

I hope all patients are still well taken care of...
Times like this is when docs and nurses are much appreciated for their hard work.
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