The threat of fire at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Buckhead had passed by Wednesday afternoon and no one was harmed, according to the Atlanta Fire Department.

Initially the department said several people had asked to be taken to the hospital, but that information was corrected; no one was transported, according to Capt. Jolyon Bundridge.

Sprinklers quickly extinguished a fire in some ducts in the hotel's laundry room Wednesday morning.

And then firefighters conducted a floor-by-floor inspection before leaving the Ritz.

The cause of the first has not been determined, Bundridge said.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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