Firefighters help guests trapped in hotel elevator

Local firefighters were busy overnight. No one was hurt, but a carbon monoxide detector may have saved lives on Lake Street

Fire Services visited both the Quattro and Delta Waterfront hotels overnight.

Sault Ste. Marie Fire Services was called in the wee hours of Sunday morning to Quattro Hotel and Conference Centre on Great Northern Road to help guests trapped in a hotel elevator.

Two teenagers became trapped between the fifth and sixth floors.

Firefighters were dispatched a little after midnight and the youth remained calm throughout the ordeal, which lasted less than half an hour.

With firefighters communicating to them through the jammed doors, teens managed to get one of the doors open and were safely helped out of the elevator.

Delta Waterfront Hotel

Fire Services also spent an hour and a half early Sunday at the Delta Waterfront Hotel.

An odour like natural gas was detected in the hotel lobby but the fire department's portable gas monitors did not confirm the observation.

Union Gas was called out to check the situation at the Delta.

There was no evacuation of guests.

Trunk Road

Around 3:24 a.m. Fire Services responded to a complaint of smoke in an apartment building in the 500 block of Trunk Road.

Checking each apartment, firefighters found the source - food smoking in an oven.

Rossmore Road

Around the time of yesterday's garage fire on Leighs Bay Road, firefighters were also dispatched to 100 block of Rossmore Road for a outside cooking-oil fire.

The homeowner was able to extinguish the blaze himself with a garden hose.

Lake Street

Before 11 a.m. Sunday, Fire Services responded to two carbon monoxide alarms set off in a single-family residence in the 300 block of Lake Street.

Carbon monoxide was detected by portable gas monitors and the situation was remedied with help from Union Gas.