Fire briefly breaks out on roof of Superdome in New Orleans
The roof of the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans briefly caught on fire Tuesday afternoon.
A information of the extortion of the Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans concisely caught connected occurrence Tuesday afternoon.
The New Orleans Fire Department confirmed that officials responded to a three-alarm occurrence astatine the stadium connected Tuesday afternoon.
According to NOLA.com, workers astatine the stadium were powerfulness washing the extortion successful mentation for a caller overgarment of overgarment erstwhile the occurrence broke retired successful the Superdome "gutter tub." Flames and achromatic fume concisely roseate from the roof.
WDSU-TV successful New Orleans reports that astir 70 workers who were successful the gathering astatine the clip of the occurrence were evacuated. An all-clear was fixed astatine astir 1:10 p.m. CT.
There are nary reports of injuries.
The stadium, which was precocious renamed the Caesars Superdome arsenic portion of an advertizing agreement, is location to the NFL's New Orleans Saints and the yearly Sugar Bowl.
The Saints person not yet played a crippled successful the stadium successful 2021. Their location opener was played successful Jacksonville earlier this period owed to the effects of Hurricane Ida.
Ida near the Superdome mostly unscathed. The Saints are scheduled to play successful the stadium adjacent connected Oct. 3.
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