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Fire closes nursing faculty
01 April 2009
An electrical fire at Sydney Adventist Hospital closed Avondale College's Faculty of Nursing and Health for more than three days this past week.
The fire began in a switchboard a floor above Lecture Room 3 at about 4.30 pm on Thursday.
An evacuation of the building affected classes--level-five students took equipment outside to continue their clinical assessment. The faculty cancelled level-one classes and re-scheduled the clinical assessment on Friday.
Level-three students, who are currently completing their clinical, helped evacuate patients in the hospital.
The faculty re-opened Monday morning with no damage to property.
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