HOUSTON — It took several hours and more than 100 firefighters to put out a 3-alarm motel fire in west Houston.
The Motel 6 along the W. Sam Houston Parkway near Westheimer caught fire shortly before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. When firefighters arrived, they said they saw smoke coming from the building. Fortunately, all of the residents had gotten out.
Firefighters started trying to put the fire out from inside the building, but when the fire started to spread and the motel became unsafe, firefighters got out and started attacking the fire from outside.
More than 100 firefighters were working to put the fire out, mainly due to the heat, said Houston Fire Department Captain Sedrick Robinett.
He said firefighters rotated out, allowing them some time to rest and hydrate because temperatures in Houston Tuesday reached near triple digits.
METRO allowed some of its buses to go to the scene so firefighters had a cool place to escape the heat.
Arson investigators will be looking into what started it all.
The motel will be shut down.
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