Teen triggers fire alarm and flooding at Palace Station

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- It was a rude awakening for people on the seventh floor of the hotel at Palace Station casino-hotel.

The fire alarm and sprinkler system went off around midnight on Wednesday, forcing several guests to be evacuated from their rooms.

But there was never a fire.

It turns out, a teenage girl was trying to steam a dress. The girl told Action News she hung the dress from an overhead sprinkler fixture in her seventh floor hotel room.

When she was steaming it while it was hanging, the hot steam triggered the sprinkler to go off. Cell phone video shows how water started shooting out and drenching the hotel room.

The water soaked the hallways and other rooms on the same floor, so several guests had to be moved to other rooms in the hotel.

The teenager is visiting from South Carolina and is in Las Vegas this week for the Cinderella International Scholarship Pageant for girls and young women.

No one was hurt in this incident, but there will be a lot of cleanup to do at the hotel.

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Teen triggers fire alarm and flooding at Palace Station