Winnipeg firefighters put out a blaze inside a Winnipeg hotel's laundry room Saturday night. A small fire broke out around 6 p.m. at the Viscount Gort Hotel on Portage Avenue.

Guests were evacuated from the three-story, 80-room hotel but later allowed to return. No one was hurt. The incident caused about $10,000 in smoke and water damage to the property, he said.

TRAGEDY WAS averted in the early hours of Monday morning, when a blaze in the laundry room of the Royal Hotel was extinguished by a staff member before fire engines arrived on the scene.

On Jan.10, 2015 just after 4 a.m. CST, hotel staff found Machiskinic, the 29-year-old mother of four, fatally injured in the hotel laundry room.