Pine Mountain Georgia Fire Department News

May 17, 2009
Firefighters Respond to Motel Fire

Firefighters from Pine Mountain, with automatic mutual aid from Hopewell, responded to a structure fire at the Day’s Inn motel on Sunday, May 17.

About 4:15 p.m., firefighters were dispatched to a fire at the rear of the structure and that was closely followed by the report of heavy smoke showing.

While firefighters were enroute, yet another report indicated the burning building contained chemicals for the hotel’s swimming pool.

Firefighters arrived on the scene to actually find two buildings burning. A storage building located behind the pool and used for storage of motel supplies, was fully involved. The fire had just spread to a second small building, located on one end of the pool, which contained restrooms and pool chemicals.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire in the second pool to reduce any potential threat posed by the pool chemicals. Once that was accomplished, firefighters turned their attention to the building which had initially caught fire, and rapidly extinguished it.

The building that initially began burning was fully involved before firefighters arrived. A motel employee walking to the rear of the facility saw the fire and turned in the alarm.

Quint 1201 responded as the primary engine with an 1-3/4 attack line deployed to extinguish the fire. Engine 1202, which carries 1,000 gallons of water, responded and provided water. Engine 501, which also carries 1,000 gallons of water, staged at the nearest fire hydrant, but was ultimately not needed. Squad 12 was also staged at the scene. Both Engine 501 and Squad 12 were kept ready to respond to another alarm.

There were no injuries in connection with the incident.

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