Burlington Hotel fire
Guests were evacuated and
one person was taken to hospital after fire at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin
this morning.
The fire broke out in a room
on the 6th floor and emergency services were called to the scene at about
5.20am.
Burlington Hotel fire injuries
The person taken to hospital
is not understood to have fire-related injuries but injuries related to the
evacuation.
Four Dublin Fire Brigade
appliances, a turntable ladder and two ambulances attended the scene and have
extinguished the fire.
It is understood the room
was destroyed in what was a suspected fridge fire.
Burlington Hotel fire witnesses
“I think people are paying
very high prices for what were once great hotels, now nothing is being replaced,
everything is being cut back, and guests are paying the price”.