Crime & Safety
Vallejo Motel Fire Displaces 20, Damages 5 Rooms: WATCH
An occupant of the burning room escaped safely but suffered a minor injury.
Vallejo firefighters responded to a reported fire in a motel room at the Vallejo Motel 7 at 211 Lincoln Road West in room 131. Firefighters arrived and found one of the motel rooms fully involved in fire and room to each side and above being threatened. pic.twitter.com/TVV2Zo3ZtZ
— William Tweedy (@vfdpio) April 17, 2018
VALLEJO, CA — Twenty people were displaced by a two-alarm fire at a Motel 7 in Vallejo on Monday afternoon, a fire department spokesman said. The fire in a first-floor room of the motel at 211 Lincoln Road W. was reported around 3:20 p.m. Four other rooms were damaged by smoke or forced entry by firefighters, Vallejo firefighter/paramedic Aaron Klauber said.
An occupant of the burning room escaped safely but suffered a minor injury, and a motel employee who tried to put out the fire with a hose suffered smoke inhalation, Klauber said.
Firefighters confined the fire to the first-floor room and the motel managers and the American Red Cross assisted the displaced occupants with other housing, Klauber said.
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Firefighters were at the scene for more than two hours and the cause of the fire is under investigation, Klauber said.
@tweedywj - Vallejo firefighters responded to a reported fire in a motel room at the Vallejo Motel 7 at 211 Lincoln Road West in room 131. Firefighters arrived and found one of the motel rooms fully involved in fire and room to each side and above bein… https://t.co/vV8OfNqH7Z pic.twitter.com/aDksTEt2Bs
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