A hospital radio station could been taken "off-air" for months after a flood caused by an exploding radiator destroyed vital sound equipment.

Goodmayes Hospital Radio now faces a bill of £30,000 after water damage devastated their volunteer-run studio.

The Jumbo Sound radio programme had just finished celebrating its 40 year anniversary when an engineer discovered the carnage on Tuesday (November 10).

Water was found dripping from the ceiling ‘like rain’ spraying the power supply, mixing equipment and water-logging computers.

Engineer Lee Howe, 19, said the studio was left empty but filling with hot water for nearly three days.

“I was just going in to see if a wire had been pulled out because the music crashed”, he said.

“I heard this hissing noise.

“I thought that someone had left the speakers on but there was water spurting out like a fountain.

“It was so humid the water had evaporated and was dripping off the ceiling like it had been raining inside for days.”

The extent of the damage is not yet known, with much of the equipment being left to dry, but Mr Howe said he managed to salvage the hard drive containing their collection of music.

“The sad thing is we could be off-air for months", he added.

“We can’t do a live show or have any sort of patient interaction with the studio completely unusable.

“We all had a meeting and were so down. There were no tears but we were just like ‘what do we do now?’”

The radio station will operate remotely “as a MP3 player” until insurance inspectors visit the site and work out the exact damage.

To volunteer or donate to the charity visit www.thejumbosound.com.