'Electrical smell' prompts evacuation

Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Photo by Gerard O'Brien.

People wait outside Dunedin Hospital after being evacuated about 8am yesterday.

A Fire Service spokesman said firefighters from Dunedin Station were called after an "electrical smell'' was detected in the ward block.

The crew discovered a ballast in a fluorescent lighting system had overheated.

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