Tunica County officials believe an in-room refrigerator started a fire at Fitzgeralds Casino and Hotel that forced guests to evacuate the building's top three floors Sunday morning.
Larry Liddell, public information officer for Tunica County, said an overheated refrigerator on the seventh floor likely sparked the electrical fire that began between 9:30 and 10 a.m. The seventh, eighth and ninth floors were evacuated.
Firefighters extinguished the fire by noon, said Liddell.
"We evacuated the top three floors of the hotel, but the casino was never evacuated," he said. "We evacuated the hotel for precautionary reasons."
No one was injured, said Liddell.
The hotel and casino remained open Sunday and the evacuated floors were reopened in the afternoon, according to Liddell.
-- Mike Mueller: 529-2627
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