LITTLETON, N.H. (AP) – All patients at Littleton Regional Hospital were discharged or transferred after a fire broke out in the building’s administrative wing on Saturday.

Nineteen patients were evacuated at around 3:30 p.m. when a fire started in the roofing area near a generator in the hospital’s medical office building, hospital spokeswoman Gail Clark said. No one was injured in the blaze, which did not spread to other areas of the hospital.

and was quickly knocked down by firefighters.

Several patients were transferred to area hospitals. Some were discharged and went home, Clark said.

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