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West Bank Holiday Inn evacuated for fire
About 200 guests had to be evacuated from a West Bank motel Sunday morning because of a clothes-dryer fire.
Firefighters from the Terrytown Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched to the Holiday Inn on Sunday about 8 a.m. By the time they arrived, smoke was visible and the hotel was being evacuated, Deputy Chief Robert Masson said.
The hotel is a 14-floor tower on the West Bank Expressway at the base of the Crescent City Connection just outside the Gretna city limits.
Among the guests were 25 teenagers from seven different cities brought there by a nonprofit organization dedicated to children with cancer, Masson said.
During the course of the incident, two people -- one a guest and one an employee -- were transported by ambulance to local hospitals for possible smoke inhalation, he said.
The fire, which started in a dryer on the first floor, was extinguished, but not before the smoke traveled to all floors of the tower, Masson said.
Guests were allowed to return to their rooms at 9:45 a.m.
