Orange County Register

Photo of smoke rising from the Grand Californian Hotel courtesy of Twitter user @alwaysxmichelle.

Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel was evacuated earlier today after one of the pizza ovens started smoking.

Smoke was first seen about 2 p.m., causing a fire scare. The fire was cleared up within 30 minutes.

“As a precaution we began evacuating the hotel, but it’s really a non-issue,” Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown said.

The number of people evacuated was not immediately known.

Twitter user @SarahSamudre first wrote about the news of the fire at the hotel on the social-networking site.

“It was just cleared by the fire marshall about five minutes ago. All the guests are back inside, thankfully,” she wrote soon after the fire.

“It’s now relegated from crisis down to interesting anecdote. Now to resume the vacation,” @SarahSamudre ‘tweeted.’

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