Petrolia hospital evacuated after natural gas leak

Hospital workers in Petrolia helped evacuate patients Wednesday evening after a natural gas leak.Fifteen patients in the emergency department and acute care were evacuated from Bluewater Health’s Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital around 8 p.m. as a precaution, said facilities and support services director Jack Vanderveen.“We had a contractor doing some coring to run a sprinkler pipe and they hit a gas line,” he said.Ambulances were redirected to Bluewater Health’s Sar