AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - American ski racers flee Chile hotel blaze with only the clothes on their backs
More than 30 U.S. ski racers escaped a fire that gutted their hotel in Chile days before a major international competition, losing gear, passports, wallets, and medications in the chaos. The fire tore through Hotel Alto Nevados on September 6, forcing a mass evacuation that left the building a smouldering shell and wiped out nearly […] The post American ski racers flee Chile hotel blaze with only the clothes on their backs appeared first on American Almanac .
More than 30 U.S. ski racers escaped a fire that gutted their hotel in Chile days before a major international competition, losing gear, passports, wallets, and medications in the chaos. The fire tore through Hotel Alto Nevados on September 6, forcing a mass evacuation that left the building a smouldering shell and wiped out nearly everything the athletes had brought for the opening event of the FIS Masters Alpine Skiing World Cup. Chile's local fire service received the alert at around 5 p.m. on Sunday and deployed more than a dozen vehicles to the scene, The Sun reported . No deaths or serious injuries were reported. But the material toll was severe. The racers had been preparing for the World Cup curtain-raiser, scheduled for…Open