A Lebanon firefighter who was injured in an explosion at a hotel on Christmas Eve morning last year is telling what happened.
Capt. Jeffrey Egner was one of two firefighters who were injured in an explosion at the Element Hotel in Lebanon on the morning of Dec. 24. According to the Lebanon Fire Department, they received an alarm just after 5:15 a.m. from the hotel on Foothill Street.
"The whistle on our roof actually went off with box alarm, so it was a little eerie to begin with," Egner said.
He added that when they arrived, the hotel was dark. When they got inside, someone led he and Firefighter Todd Hamilton to the first floor.
"And as we were going down the hallway, we noticed a puddle of water on the ground, coming out from underneath a doorway, figuring that was odd and that was probably where our issue was," Egner said.