Firefighters have extinguished a fire on the third floor of a high-rise hotel in Colorado Springs. Firefighters say an unattended candle was the cause of the accidental fire.
Crews were able to keep the blaze contained to a single unit, though smoke spread further across the building.
Firefighters pulled up at the Satellite Hotel off Airport and South Academy just after noon Tuesday.
“We started smelling smoke, mostly in my office and the one next door,” said Heila Rogers of Kingdom Builders and Family Life Center, which is housed on the hotel’s second floor. “We had our windows open because we’re painting our offices right now, so we didn’t know where it was coming from. Then the lady down the hall further started smelling smoke. And then we heard people on the third floor had seen smoke and fire, so we started exiting the building.”