St. Elizabeths Hospital patients and staff were evacuated after a small fire broke out at a high-security dorm area, D.C. fire officials said.

D.C. authorities got the call shortly before 4 p.m.,Wednesday at the psychiatric hospital that houses President Reagan shooter John Hinckley and James Swann, the serial killer known as the Shotgun Stalker.

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