Monday night at approximately 10 PM there was a small fire at the Derrick Hotel. To get a follow up on the situation we talked to fire chief, Dale Feser about the minor blaze.

"After investigation and talks with the contractors that were in there, it was indeed found that there was a contractor inside the occupancy that was trying to fix a water line. Initially, it was into consideration that maybe this act was a contributing factor to the ignition source however it was learned after interviews that the contractor was trying to do repairs and actually received some electrical shocks."

Feser continued to talk about the attempted resolution that was made after the injury to the contractor.

"[The contractor] shut down the operation of the repair process until power could be isolated and it dried out so he would receive any further injury as a result of his repair process, however, the power was not isolated in that location and as a result of the water leak it shorted out some electrical circuitry in one occupancy inside the hotel causing the fire."

For more insight into the fire, check out our previous article on the matter.