False Alarm at Holiday Inn on Route 1

A report of a Friday morning fire at the Holiday Inn in Jessup was a false alarm, said officials.

"At 9:13 a.m., the call was dispatched, and it was a report of a fire," said Jackie Cutler, spokeswoman for the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services.

She said that crews from Savage, Columbia and Anne Arundel County responded to the fire at the hotel on the 7900 block of Washington Boulevard but found none.

"When they got there, they saw light haze, and it wound up being something with the HVAC system," said Cutler. 

Firefighters evacuated the building and investigated to ensure there was no carbon monoxide, said Cutler.

This was the the fire department was called to the Holiday Inn in approximately three months.

On Nov. 1, a pile of debris caught fire on the hotel's roof during construction and resulted in evacuation as well. Nobody was injured in either incident, according to Cutler.