{"id":58103,"date":"2026-08-05T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fire-damage-assessed-after-blaze-breaks-out-at-knoll-hospital-in-duns\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:10:06","slug":"fire-damage-assessed-after-blaze-breaks-out-at-knoll-hospital-in-duns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fire-damage-assessed-after-blaze-breaks-out-at-knoll-hospital-in-duns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damage assessed after blaze breaks out at Knoll Hospital in Duns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A health board has promised to restore all services as quickly as possible after a fire broke out at a community hospital in the Borders.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four fire crews were at the scene for about three hours after the alarm was raised just after 13:00 at the Knoll Hospital in Duns, which is already partially-closed due to the replacement of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (Raac)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS Borders said all patients, staff and contractors who were on site were &#8220;safe and accounted for&#8221; with no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said outpatient clinic services at the site would be disrupted while a full assessment of the building and any damage was carried out. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd69xjndgvno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A health board has promised to restore all services as quickly as possible after a fire broke out at a community hospital in the Borders. Four fire crews were at the scene for about three hours after the alarm was raised just after 13:00 at the Knoll Hospital in Duns, which is already partially-closed due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[11124,706,1597,3124,5777,666,79,16230],"class_list":["post-58103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-assessed","tag-blaze","tag-breaks","tag-damage","tag-duns","tag-fire","tag-hospital","tag-knoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58105,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58103\/revisions\/58105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}