A female patient is arrested, accused of setting a fire inside Deaconess Midtown Hospital’s Emergency Department.
Police say 50-year-old Sandra Lester set a linen basket on fire.
She then walked out of the hospital.
Officials say a nurse put out the fire with an extinguisher before firefighters arrived.
Chief Mike Larson says the hospital staff was well-trained for such an emergency.
The nurse who operated the extinguisher was admitted to the emergency department for treatment of smoke inhalation
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