Guests at the Fortina Spa Hotel, in Sliema, were evacuated after a small fire in a kitchen. The fire started in a frying pan in a ground floor restaurant. Civil Protection Department personnel soon brought it under control and staff and police helped guests to leave their rooms as thick black smoke billowed through the ventilation. No one was injured but two guests required treatment for smoke inhalation.
A photo taken by local resident Steve Gill at the height of the blaze.