Mount Sinai West emergency room floods after sprinkler system goes off; hospital now back to normal

HELL'S KITCHEN, Manhattan (WABC) -- Mount Sinai West Hospital is back to normal after the sprinkler system was activated, flooding the emergency room on Saturday afternoon.

Several other floors of the hospital were also flooded.
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Employees worked quickly to clean up the mess and used machines to pump out the water.



There is no word on why the sprinkler system was activated.

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