A fire broke out at a historic Oregon hotel that was used as the backdrop for the Stephen King-inspired horror movie, “The Shining.”
Firefighters were called to the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon after receiving reports of a fire inside the national historic landmark on Thursday around 9:30 p.m.
Employees in the lodge discovered the blaze in the attic.
“The fire at Timberline Lodge was declared under control at 11:12 p.m.,” the Clackamas Fire Department said. “The fire was kept to the roof & part of the attic, & didn’t spread any further. Crews are clearing the scene.”
“Firefighters have a good knock-down on the fire and are doing everything they can to preserve the historic assets that exist here,” the department said according to KTVZ.
The US Forest Service is investigating the fire with the help of federal resources.
No injuries were reported in the blaze.
Additional crews from nearby Hoodland, Gresham and Estacada Fire Departments were called to protect the historic lodge.
Photos from the scene captured firefighters working to put out the blaze.
The 55,000-square-foot lodge opened in 1937 on the South face of active stratovolcano Mount Hood.
It was dedicated by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on Sept. 28, 1937.
The ski lodge and mountain retreat was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Along with its popular ski resort, the lodge has become a tourist attraction following the success of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 hit film “The Shining.”
Kubrick used the Timberline as his backdrop for the film despite author Stephen King being inspired by The Stanley Hotel in California.
Aerial shots of the hotel were used at the beginning of the movie and established the opening shot of the fictional Overlook Hotel.
“Film of the exterior of Timberline Lodge was used for some establishing shots of the fictional Overlook Hotel throughout the movie,” according to the lodge’s website.
A majority of the movie was shot at Elstree Studios in England using a mockup of parts of the hotel.
The iconic Room 237 was created as a fictionalized version of Room 217 at the lodge after Kubrick was asked not to depict the original number in King’s novel.
At the time, hotel management felt most guests wouldn’t want to stay in the room in fear of it being haunted.
“However, Room 217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline. Rest assured, Timberline is not haunted!”
The lodge is approximately 55 miles southeast from Portland.
