{"id":1547643,"date":"2022-07-10T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T00:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547643"},"modified":"2022-07-10T20:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T00:34:31","slug":"daring-rescue-saves-guests-as-fire-ravages-338-year-old-nantucket-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daring-rescue-saves-guests-as-fire-ravages-338-year-old-nantucket-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Rescue Saves Guests As Fire Ravages 338-Year-Old Nantucket Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdaring-rescue-saves-guests-as-fire-ravages-338-year-old-nantucket-hotel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547643&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An early-morning fire tore through a 17th-century hotel on picturesque Nantucket Island Saturday, but no guests were \u00a0hurt thanks to a daring rescue by an off-duty fire captain and several civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The Veranda House Hotel, which was built in 1684 and has long been a landmark on the Massachusetts island, was gutted in the fire, which was reported just before 7 a.m. Before the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=407217054774456&#038;set=a.241586964670800\">Nantucket Fire Department<\/a>\u00a0arrived, the off-duty captain and others rushed into the 18-room boutique hotel and rescued two guests, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Veranda House team is deeply grateful to the Nantucket Fire Department and first responders for their quick action taken during this incident,\u201d hotel officials said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theverandahouse\/posts\/10159876949352731\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fire spread to two nearby buildings, and the local fire crews battled the blaze well into the evening. Firefighters remained on the scene until Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Were being told there are two other buildings in addition to the Veranda House that have caught fire. <\/p>\n<p>NFD believes all guests &#038; staff made it out alive. <\/p>\n<p>A neighbor credited a Jamaican woman delivering newspapers for first spotting it, calling it in, alerting hotel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nantucket?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nantucket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hY6lGXRZBu\">pic.twitter.com\/hY6lGXRZBu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nantucket Current (@ACKCurrent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACKCurrent\/status\/1545771330884325377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two firefighters have been taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, and a third suffered a back injury, according to \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/historic-338-year-old-hotel-nantucket-damaged-massive-fire-rcna37504\">NBCNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to further state the heroic efforts of several community members including Patrick Marks, Jim McIntosh and off-duty Captain Nathan Barber (and I am sure I may be missing names) [who] saved lives on Saturday,\u201d Nantucket Fire Chief Stephen Murphy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecod.com\/cape-wide-news\/huge-fire-at-nantucket-hotel-draws-response-from-cape-cod-firefighters\/\">said<\/a> in a press release on Sunday. \u201cThey all entered into life threatening conditions in order to warn, rescue and remove people within the building. Their bravery will not go unnoticed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was no official cost estimate for the damage, though all of the buildings involved were described as \u201ctotal losses\u201d by officials. The loss of the Veranda House Hotel may be a significant blow to Nantucket Island, as the hotel has played host to several prominent guests such as Fred Rogers from \u201c\u201dMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood,\u201d according to reporting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/07\/10\/metro\/veranda-house-two-other-buildings-are-total-losses-following-blaze-said-fire-officials\/\">the Boston Globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early-morning fire tore through a 17th-century hotel on picturesque Nantucket Island Saturday, but no guests were \u00a0hurt thanks to a daring rescue by an off-duty fire captain and several civilians. The Veranda House Hotel, which was built in 1684 and has long been a landmark on the Massachusetts island, was gutted in the fire, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":1547680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}