By Gary Stoller
USA TODAY
Thick smoke rolled through the New York Hilton near Rockefeller Center on the afternoon of Oct. 1, the result of a garbage fire in the basement.
Hundreds of guests were evacuated from the 46-story hotel, Manhattan traffic was tied up for hours and 33 people were treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation. But, most important, no one died.
It’s an increasingly common outcome of hotel fires these days.
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