A FIRE that broke out this morning in a hospital forced emergency services to evacuate the building.

The Red Cross hospital in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) went up in flames at about 12.35hrs today.

Fireman had managed to evacuate the second and fourth floor by 13.00hrs.

No injuries have as yet been reported.

Emergency services are continuing to try to bring the blaze, the causes of which are unknown, under control.

They have not yet been able to locate where the fire started.