Hotel cleared while fire's snuffed

Fri, April 14, 2006

Guests at the Fairfield Inn, 4514 West Lake Ave., Glenview, were evacuated from their rooms around 1 a.m. Tuesday after Glenview firefighters and police responded to a fire alarm.

The fire was located in an unoccupied room on the third floor, where authorities said painters had left on a 500 watt halogen lamp. The lamp touched a plastic tarp, causing it to melt and catch fire. The blaze set off the sprinklers and the fire alarm.

Guests were allowed back into the hotel around 2:30 a.m.

Several rooms on the floors below the fire were damaged by water. About 15 guests in those rooms and others that were smoky were relocated to other area hotels.

Sutherland hotel damaged by fire

12 April 2006
A hotel in the Highlands has been badly damaged by fire.
The alarm was raised at the Lady Ross Hotel in Ardgay, Sutherland, at 0400 GMT on Wednesday.

Highlands and Islands Fire Rescue Service units from Bonar Bridge, Lairg and Dornoch attended the blaze on the ground floor.

The building also contains a post office, shop and pub. No-one was injured and firefighters were investigating the cause of the fire.