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Fire at Isle hotel quickly extinguished
Published Friday, July 18, 2008
NATCHEZ — What could have been a potentially damaging fire at the Isle of Capri hotel was responded to swiftly and efficiently.
General Manager and Vice President of Isle of Capri Tony Scudiero said he got a call Tuesday afternoon letting him know that there was a fire at the hotel.
Scudiero said by the time he reached the hotel from his office on Silver Street, the Natchez Fire Department had already put out the fire — a burning bag of towels.
“There was more smoke than anything,” Scudiero said.
Battalion Chief Mike Eidt said the towels, which are kitchen towels used for cleaning appliances, appeared to have spontaneously combusted.
“It wasn’t anything done on purpose,” he said.
He said the towels were greasy and were in a plastic bag.
Eidt said when the three fire trucks pulled up to the scene, there was “moderate smoke coming from the kitchen area.”
Scudiero said one of his employees assisted in putting out the fire with an extinguisher.
“It happened so quick and everyone was quick to react it went very smooth,” he said.
He said he is very grateful it didn’t turn into a large-scale fire.
“These kinds of things you never want to get out of hand,” he said. “The main thing is that no one got hurt.”
He’s also grateful for the speedy response of the fire department.
“They did a tremendous job of getting here and getting here quick,” he said.
He said customers didn’t even notice there was a fire.
Comments
Posted by lowrider (anonymous) on July 18, 2008 at 12:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Why is the Democrat running this story so late.
Posted by natchez1 (anonymous) on July 18, 2008 at 12:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It was in the Democrats reports on Wednesday. I guess Mary just read Wednesdays paper. Its good we rely on the Democrat for all the breaking local news!
CNN has a major article on the Dec. 1964 arson murder in Ferriday, very interesting story - before my time. Although their math is off - says it was 44 years ago - close but not quite!
Posted by callinitlikeitis (anonymous) on July 19, 2008 at 1:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
W A Y T O G O N T Z. F I R E D E P A R T M E N T !!!!!
the fire department in natchez seldom gets recognition and i don't understand why??? i live across from one of the stations and see them go on calls every week yet the NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT has recorded daily in 'RECORDS' under natchez fire dept. "no calls". i dont like that at all. for one reason.....it is not the truth.
Posted by callinitlikeitis (anonymous) on July 19, 2008 at 1:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
W A Y T O G O N T Z. F I R E D E P A R T M E N T !!!!!
the fire department in natchez seldom gets recognition and i don't understand why??? i live across from one of the stations and see them go on calls every week yet the NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT has recorded daily in 'RECORDS' under natchez fire dept. "no calls". i dont like that at all. for one reason.....it is not the truth.
Natchez Fire Department
No calls.
Vidalia Fire Department
No calls.
Ferriday Fire Department
No calls.
Concordia Fire District No.2
No calls.
**********SEE WHAT I MEAN??***************
Posted by guy2co (anonymous) on July 21, 2008 at 1:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
callinitlikeitis you are right, sometimes we will be out all night long and respond to several calls, but there is no mention of them. We usually help others and seldom get thanked. Its just part of the job. We do this to help others, and don't expect any recognition for it. Sometimes we don't have any calls, and there have been days when we've had 5 or 6 fires in one day. Either way we are here for you 24/7.
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