Firefighters in biohazard suits & 10 ambulances scrambled to major incident at care home with staff seen crying outside

ALL 3 exigency services person responded to a 'major incident' astatine a attraction location successful Dorset, with 2 patients rushed to hospital.

The incidental occurred astatine Gainsborough Care Home successful Ullwell Road, Swanage, astatine astir 5.20am today, with police, occurrence and ambulance each sent successful response.

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called astatine 05:20hrs connected Wednesday 23 October to an incidental astatine a attraction location successful Swanage.

"We sent a Hazardous Area Response Team, 10 double-crewed onshore ambulances, arsenic good arsenic a important fig of further resources.

"Two patients were conveyed by onshore ambulance to Poole Hospital.”

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service radical manager Neil Tidball said: "We presently person 4 occurrence crews connected country from Swanage, Wareham, Westbourne, Poole, a enactment conveyance from Dorchester, on with 2 crews from Winchester.

"Firefighters are moving with Dorset Police, South West Ambulance Service and different partners to resoluteness this incident."