No one was hurt during a fire at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center in Jamaica Plain on Monday, but damage will be impacting the facility for the foreseeable future.
It happened around 10 a.m. at the facility on South Huntington Ave.
The fire started outside the MRI suite and extended to that wing of the hospital. Welding work was being done at the time, but the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
"When they investigated that further, they discovered that there was a pretty extensive fire underneath the MRI," Deputy Fire Chief Martin McCormack said.
McCormack said if hospital workers were not able to shut off the equipment so quickly, it could have been a dangerous situation, as MRI machines can act as magnets, turning any object into a projectile.