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Overheated washer sends smoke through Cedar Rapids hotel
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Jun. 11, 2010 7:50 am
A hot breakfast at the Collins Inn & Suites is an option guests usually have in the morning, but there was something extra hot for guests Thursday night: a laundry machine.
Fire Battalion Chief George Bockenstedt said crews responded to an overheated washer at the hotel around 9:15 p.m. Smoke cleared soon after, and no one was injured.
This was not the quiet night Michael Cortez, 30, of Coralville, expected at the hotel. He said it smelled like burned wiring.
“This is different, definitely different,” said Cortez as he sat in the lobby while a fireman talked to the staff.
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