Motor home ‘a total loss’ after catching fire in West Valley City hotel parking lot

Fire crews responded to a motor home ablaze in the parking lot of Extended Stay America in West Valley City on Tuesday night, Feb. 27, 2018. Photo: Gephardt Daily/Monico Garza/SLCScanner

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Feb. 27, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — Fire crews responded to a motor home ablaze in the parking lot of Extended Stay America on Tuesday night.

Crews were dispatched at about 7:45 p.m. to the hotel, at 2310 W. City Center Court.

Multiple calls came in to West Valley City Fire Department as motorists on the nearby freeway saw the flames and quickly dialed 911, said WVCFD Battalion Chief Jed Peters.

Peters told Gephardt Daily that crews had the flames extinguished within a couple minutes, and about half of the motor home was damaged by fire.

“It’s a total loss, though, because of smoke damage, and because they don’t rebuild them,” he said.

No one was injured in the fire. The owner had stopped to stay at the hotel, and no one was in the motor home when the fire broke out.

Peters said investigators were still on scene, but there was nothing suspicious about the fire, and it is considered “accidental.”

The chief said he didn’t know how many people were traveling in the motor home, or exactly where it was from, but he said it had Utah license plates.

One engine, one ambulance and five firefighters responded to the scene.

 

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