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One person was killed and nearly 1,700 tourists were evacuated due to a large fire at the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel in Bayahibe, on the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic on Friday (June 19).

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00:01Drone footage shot by an eyewitness on Friday revealed the scale of a blaze that killed
00:06one person and forced nearly 1,700 guests to flee a hotel in the Dominican beach resort
00:12of Baiajibé.
00:13A 46-year-old Italian woman, Francesca Valentino, was killed in the fire at the Viva Windham
00:20Dominicus Beach Hotel.
00:22Three people were taken to medical facilities, and six others were treated on site.
00:26The operations center said the fire was brought under control, but its cause was still being
00:32investigated.
00:33Guests were moved to nearby hotels.
00:35The Viva Windham Dominicus Palace, part of the same chain, did not sustain any damage.
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