NICU babies evacuated from Beaumont hospital due to water loss

BEAUMONT, Texas - It's a dramatic situation watching them transport the tiny babies to get them to safety, FOX 26's Hal Eisner reported.

The babies are being taken to a neonatal unit in Galveston.

On Friday morning, when they started evacuation operations again at 7:30 a.m., there were 83 patients left, including 14 are babies, 11 of whom were in the NICU. The other three were just born Thursday, Eisner reported.

Baptist Hospital's Dr. Ali Osman told Eisner that they're trying to set up the hospitals to accept very critical emergency situations.