
Lethbridge man charged in connection to downtown hotel fire
LETHBRIDGE, AB – Lethbridge Police have charged a man in connection to a hotel fire on Monday, May 29, 2023.
At approximately 1:15 a.m., Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services responded to the Sandman Signature Hotel along the 300 block of Scenic Drive South.
Crews arrived on scene and extinguished a fire found burning under a concrete loading dock near the southwest corner of the hotel, and were able to keep the fire to the outside of the building.
The smoke from the fire set off the fire alarm in the hotel, and no injuries were reported. Hotel guests were later able to return to their rooms.