Fire breaks out at French Quarter hotel

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Photo credit NOFD

Firefighters battled flames and smoke on Bourbon Street Sunday.

"The New Orleans Fire Department (NOFD) was dispatched to the Royal Sonesta Hotel on 300 Bourbon Street, after reports of a fire on the second floor in a storage room," spokesperson DeRonta Laugand said in a news release.

It happened around 11:00am.

"During search and rescue efforts, firefighters safely assisted an individual in a wheelchair from the fourth floor and evacuated two additional occupants from a second-floor balcony."

Laugand says the hotel was safely evacuated.

"This fire was placed under control at 11:44 a.m."

It too 21 NOFD vehicles with 52 firefighters.

"No casualties or injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire is being investigated."

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