A hotel in Oakley caught fire briefly Sunday evening after it was hit by lightning during storms that rolled through the region, the Cincinnati Fire Department said. The hotel on Factory Colony Lane, near the Oakley Cinemark, caught fire after lightning hit the building.
No one was hurt and the hotel was allowed to remain open after firefighters put out the fire. Fire crews were dispatched to the five-story hotel at around 4:08 p.m. Sunday evening. “First arriving companies confirmed a working fire on the west side of the building and made their way up to the roof via aerial ladder and the hotel’s interior stairs,” reads a release from CFD. Once crews got to the hotel’s roof, they were able to quickly knock the fire down — but it took longer to determine whether the fire was completely out because multiple layers of decking material had to be removed and inspected, along with part of the building’s parapet wall. “Thanks to the herculean efforts of all crews, the fire was kept from entering the building’s interior,” CFD officials wrote.
