{"id":966,"date":"2026-07-01T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:37:10","slug":"fire-rips-through-ohio-motel-killing-3-who-were-trapped-in-a-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Fire rips through Ohio motel, killing 3 who were trapped in a room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">WOOSTER, Ohio &#8212; <\/span>A fire at a motel in Ohio trapped residents in a room, killing three people inside, a fire official said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Flames were shooting through the motel&#8217;s roof when firefighters arrived at around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Wooster Township Fire Chief Dallas Terrell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A motel employee told <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/oh-wayne\/3-dead-after-hotel-fire-in-wooster-township\">WEWS-TV<\/a> in Cleveland that a man who was trapped called the front desk, saying they could not get out. The employee said two of the people who died worked at the motel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters made several attempts to reach the people who were trapped, the chief said. No one else was injured, he said, and the cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Images showed heavy damage to a back, detached section of the Econo Lodge in Wooster, which is about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Cleveland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The flames tore through the one-story area of the motel&#8217;s back building. Authorities said they went room-to-room, clearing out hotel guests in other parts of the motel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/fire-rips-ohio-motel-killing-3-trapped-room-134385699\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOOSTER, Ohio &#8212; A fire at a motel in Ohio trapped residents in a room, killing three people inside, a fire official said. Flames were shooting through the motel&#8217;s roof when firefighters arrived at around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Wooster Township Fire Chief Dallas Terrell. A motel employee told WEWS-TV in Cleveland that a man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}