Crime & Safety
3-Alarm Fire Breaks Out At Saddlebrook
An estimated 40 people were evacuated from a building on the resort's campus.
WESLEY CHAPEL, FL — Pasco County Fire Rescue is investigating a three-alarm blaze that broke out in a building on the Saddlebrook Resort campus Thursday morning.
According to fire rescue, the 16-unit, two-story building was occupied with 40 people when the fire erupted sometime around 3 a.m. Everyone was safely evacuated, county spokesman Doug Tobin wrote in an email to media.
The building was reportedly a student dorm on the resort's campus, populated mostly with teenage residents.
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The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Further information is not available at this time.
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