CELORON, N.Y. (WKBW) — One worker was hospitalized following a chemical exposure at the Chautauqua Lake Harbor Hotel in Celoron.
Firefighters cleared the hotel and did a top-to-bottom search. All guests were reported to be OK.
“We meandered in the hotel and had breakfast. We sat down, they served us our food, we were about to eat, and they said ‘Oh, will you please excuse us, but we have to ask you to leave’ and we said ‘Oh, okay,’” hotel guest Gerard Lodico said. “We left and saw fire trucks on the outside, and there was EMS there as well.”
Tim Nelson, second assistant chief of the Celoron Fire Department, told me they received a 911 call on Monday about a hotel worker who was “struggling to breathe.“
Upon arriving on the scene, Nelson noticed a chemical scent was filling the building.
“I went in, I did some investigating, found out we had a really really strong odor in the east side of the building,” Nelson said.
Nelson told me the hotel worker was sent to the hospital and released a short time later.
The Chautauqua Lake Harbor Hotel reopened a few hours later.
