Dozens of guests at Hotel La Jolla were awakened Thursday by a fire alarm but the cause of the emergency was water, not fire.
San Diego Fire-Rescue crews were called to the hotel on La Jolla Shores Drive at Torrey Pines Road at 3:30 a.m.
A pipe inside a storage room cabinet on the eighth floor burst, fire officials said.
The pressure from the gushing water was so strong that it flooded the room and tripped off the fire alarm.
Once firefighters found the pipe, they wrapped a fire hose around the break and drained all the water out of a window.
Hotel employees let guests back into their rooms just after 4:15 a.m.
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