Thirteen adults and one child were treated at local hospitals for smoke inhalation and one broken ankle. The mid morning fire in the downtown hotel started on the third floor. Photo by Jim Laurie .
Medical personnel wheel a smoke inhalation victim from the fire.
Photo by Jim Laurie . It was just blazing with black smoke,'' said Paul Weiss, a water service contractor who said he was working in a third-floor room when the fire started in a neighboring room. He called the woman's broken ankle the most serious injury. Firefighters were investigating how the fire started. A lot of people panicked and broke out windows when they didn't have to,'' the fire department spokesman said.