Elizabeth Angelina Escoto de Labourt, a 31 year old native of Santiago, panicked when smoke filled several floors of the Hotel Plaza Naco. She jumped from the 12th floor of the hotel. Her target was the pool. She didn’t make it. She had studied hotel administration and had been married to Manuel Alberto Labourt, with whom she had a 2 year old daughter. She worked in the Hotel Plaza Naco offices of the Comisión de Reforma del Sector Salud (CERSS), a project sponsored by the Interamerican Development Bank. She panicked when a smoke cloud surged from spark that ignited the acetylene being used to repair one of the hotel’s elevators in the fifth floor. The fire was quickly put out and caused no damage to the hotel. A Codetel contractor was also injured when he broke a 12th floor window to let out the smoke.
