4-alarm fire sends guests fleeing from a Howard Johnson hotel in Camden County
No one was injured and the cause of the fire remains under investigation, police said.
A four-alarm fire that ripped through a Howard Johnson hotel in Blackwood, Camden County, early Wednesday sent about 30 people fleeing for safety, authorities said.
No one was injured. The fire was reported about 3:30 a.m. at the hotel on the 800 block of North Black Horse Pike.
The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation, Lt. Jason Gittens of the Gloucester Township Police Department said Wednesday evening. He said responding officers saw flames on the roof, and the fire quickly spread from one of the three-story hotel buildings to a second, attached three-story hotel building.
About 30 people staying in the hotel were evacuated to a conference room in a third building, where the front office is located and which was not on fire, he said.
Multiple fire companies arrived at the scene, and the fire was placed under control about two hours later, police said. A section of the Black Horse Pike was shut down for about four hours, Gittens said.
A woman who answered the phone at the hotel Wednesday evening said there were no managers available to speak and referred questions to police.