FEBRUARY 25, 2006
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, MT. PLEASANT
The Mt. Pleasant Fire Department received a fire call at
the Holiday Inn Express at 10:41 p.m. on February 25. Upon
arrival, the first fire units found smoke on the second floor.
Alarms were sounding and people were evacuating the premises.
According to Assistant Fire Chief Mark Pierce, the fire
occurred in the bathroom of a room, ignited from a lighted
candle set on a bathtub edge. The occupant who lit the candle
left to retrieve an item from her car while the candle was
burning.
The one sprinkler activated in that bathroom was sufficient
to extinguish the fire. Damage was confined to the fiberglass
tub enclosure.
“It should be noted that there were no injuries reported
even though the hotel was at 75% occupancy," Pierce
said. "Seventeen of the rooms were occupied by wheelchair
bound guests. There was also no municipal water and the hotel
is located in the furthest part of the response area in the
district. The sprinkler system is supplied by the pool."
“Without a doubt, this fire could have had a more
tragic result had the structure not been equipped with an
automatic fire sprinkler system,” he concluded.
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