Patients evacuated from damaged hospital; Nurse: "This place is not safe"
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. The chief nursing officer at Florida's Charlotte Regional Medical Center says, "We really have to get the patients out of here."
The facility was one of three hospitals in Charlotte County badly damaged by Hurricane Charley.
Today more than 200 ambulances have been organized to transfer patients to other hospitals in the state.
The medical vehicles and fire rescue trucks formed a parade in front of the hospital, loaded up patients in gurneys and wheelchairs before taking off.
Chief nurse Peggy Greene says, "This place just isn't safe." She says windows were blown out, part of the roof is missing and there is no power or phone service.
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