Tucson firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire at a hotel construction site near the University of Arizona Saturday afternoon.
A fire on the 11th story of the new 14-story Graduate Hotel & The Collective Apartments at Main Gate west of the University of Arizona campus on June 23, 2020. Smoke was visible to arriving Tucson Fire Department units, which quickly snuffed the small fire. No injuries reported. Video by Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
Nobody was injured in the fire at the Graduate Hotel, a 14-story project at Main Gate square, 930 E. Second St., said Captain Hector Carpio, spokesman for the Tucson Fire Department.
The damages to the hotel have not been determined, Carpio said. Firefighters arrived on scene at 2:12 p.m. and put the fire out in 21 minutes, Carpio said.
Investigators are assessing damages and determining the cause of the fire.
Tucson firefighters snake a hose up through scaffolding while working a structure fire on a mid-level floor of a hotel currently under construction near University Boulevard, on Jan. 11, 2020.
A Tucson firefighter tries to separate fencing to get to the ground level of a construction site where where a fire was burning on mid-level floor of a hotel currently under construction near University Boulevard, on Jan. 11, 2020.
Fire crews work the scene of a structure fire at the Graduate Hotel, on Jan. 11, 2020.
