The Dallas Cowboys are in the final week of their training camp but their start of the week was pretty dramatic. On Tuesday, the team’s hotel in Oxnard, California caught fire.
The Oxnard Fire Department was called to the team hotel just before 5 pm PT after a fire was reported at the hotel. The fire started in an empty guest room. They weren’t at the hotel at the time of the fire, they were holding a walk-through just a few hundred yards away.
Footage from the scene showed smoke coming out from one of the buildings at the Residence Inn.
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The Cowboys issued a statement after the incident. According to the statement, everyone was all right and unharmed from the incident.
Here is the statement.
“There was a fire emergency in one of the guest rooms this afternoon at the team’s hotel in Oxnard, Calif.,” the Cowboys said in a statement. “The emergency was contained to one room that was empty at the time, and there were no injuries. The Dallas Cowboys thank the Oxnard Fire Department and Oxnard Police Department for their quick response and reaction to the situation.”
This incident happened during the team’s final week of training camp in Oxnard. The team held a practice session on Tuesday and they’ll hold one more practice session on Wednesday before returning to Dallas.
After that, the Cowboys will play their preseason finale against the Chargers on Saturday at the AT&T stadium.
