No injuries reported in Zakopane fire

Several tourists were evacuated from a guesthouse in Zakopane due to a fire, Małopolska firefighter spokesman Sebastian Wozniak told the press on Thursday morning. Firefighters from nine brigades staved off the danger quickly enough that most of the guests were able to return to their rooms later in the morning The "Mountain" guesthouse in the center of Zakopane saw the evacuation of 72 guests. The cause was a short circuit in electrical heating gutters. "Firefighters inspected whether the building had no carbon monoxide. It turned out that there is no longer any danger," Wozniak added. Zakopane, nestled in the Tatra Mountains, is one of Poland's most popular tourist destinations, receiving more than 1.5 million visitors annually.