Residents return to nursing home after fire causes evacuations

Saturday, July 28, 2018
THE WOODLANDS, Texas (KTRK) -- Residents of a nursing home in The Woodlands are slowly returning after evacuating due to a fire.

Firefighters say a pile of burning rags in the kitchen of the Regent Care Nursing Home filled the building with heavy smoke.
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Crews quickly extinguished the fire.

According to officials, about 100 residents were taken outside as the smoke cleared, but none of them needed medical care.
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Firefighters have not said how the stack of rags caught on fire.
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