VIDEO: The Lynchburg Fire Marshal's Office is still investigating a fire at the Seven Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing that hospitalized multiple people.
The Lynchburg Fire Department got the call just before 8 p.m. on Friday for a fire alarm and raced to the scene.
"There was a fire in a room that the sprinkler kept in check. There was smoke in the hallway," said LFD Deputy Chief of Operations Marques Bush.
Chief Bush said that's when they started evacuating the patients.
"We started with the front portion of the building, center portion of the building, and I want to say we had probably approximately about 40 residents out," Bush explained.
But the smoke kept moving through the building, and they ended up moving everyone out.