A hearth extinguisher at a on line casino in South Florida exploded Monday morning as crews carried out upkeep work, hospitalizing six individuals and treating 20 others, officers mentioned.
Hollywood Fire Rescue instructed information retailers that not one of the accidents at Seminole Classic Casino Hollywood had been life-threatening.
Seminole Tribe spokesman Gary Bittner mentioned contract employees had been performing routine service on the constructing’s fireplace extinguishing system when a gasoline canister exploded. Fire officers mentioned the blaze occurred in an space on the second flooring that was out of attain for individuals, however particles blew up onto the primary flooring of the on line casino. Bittner estimated that there have been about 100 workers and visitors within the constructing.
Hollywood and Seminole officers had been investigating the reason for the explosion. He didn’t say when the on line casino may reopen.
The constructing is situated roughly half a mile south (0.8 kilometers) from the a lot newer and bigger Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which homes a historic guitar-shaped constructing.
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