A woman has died following a fire in a hotel room in Mississauga Saturday evening.
Peel Regional Police said the fire started around 6:40 p.m. on the second floor of the Quality Inn Airport West hotel on Britannia Road East near Hurontario Street.
The woman was transported to hospital where she was declared dead. It is not known if she was a guest at the hotel.
It appears the fire may have been contained to the room the woman was in as hotel guests who were evacuated told CP24 that they did not see any smoke. They also said there was a general state of panic as people inside the hotel did not know if there was a real emergency or not.
Peel police spokesperson Const. Fiona Thivierge said the fire may have caused some damage to the rooms adjacent to the one where the fire began, but heavy smoke precipitated an evacuation of the hotel.
Thivierge said the fire is being deemed suspicious as a normal course of the police investigation.
"Any time there is a fire and there is a person in the room where the fire occurred, we deem it suspicious," she said. "Until we get some determination on what caused the fire and if she was in there and, for example, fell asleep with a cigarette, that wouldn't end up being suspicious in the end."
A coroner was on the scene and the Fire Marshall is investigating the cause of the fire.
The woman identity is not yet known.
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