Flames pour from section of Superdome roof in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke and flames changeable done the broadside of the Superdome’s extortion connected Tuesday arsenic crews worked to cleanable and hole the New Orleans sports and amusement arena for painting.

The New Orleans Fire Department confirmed firefighters responded to flames connected the building’s extortion soon earlier 1 p.m. The occurrence appeared to beryllium nether power a abbreviated clip later.

New Orleans Emergency Management Services said connected Twitter that they were transporting 1 idiosyncratic to the infirmary for “minor burns.” Emergency officials called connected radical to enactment distant from the area.

Crews were powerfulness washing the extortion this week to hole it to beryllium painted, officials said.

The occurrence happened successful a conception of Superdome roofing called the “gutter tub,” said ASM Global VP of stadiums Doug Thornton, speaking with The Times Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.

ASM Global manages the Superdome. A spokesperson did not instantly respond to a telephone telephone from The Associated Press.

The NFL’s New Orleans Saints person regularly played location games astatine the venue, often drafting capableness crowds. The Superdome besides has been the tract of 7 Super Bowls successful caller decades.

The adjacent Saints location crippled astatine the Superdome is scheduled for Oct. 3 erstwhile the squad faces the New York Giants. The team’s last preseason location crippled slated for Aug. 28 was canceled owed to impending Hurricane Ida, which made landfall the adjacent day. Since the storm, the squad has been practicing successful the Dallas area. The team’s Sept. 12 crippled against the Green Bay Packers was moved to Jacksonville, Florida, retired of concerns for the city’s wider infrastructure and Dome unit though the Dome itself was not damaged during Ida.