Report: Multiple Cowboys players displaced by Tuesday's training camp fire

In all of Mike McCarthy’s training camps, he said, he’d never seen anything quite like this.

Sixteen fire trucks and 35 firefighters responded to a fire Tuesday afternoon in one of the guest rooms at the River Ridge Residence Inn, where the Cowboys train during their annual summer stay. The team was conducting a walkthrough several hundred yards away at the time of the incident.

“When you think you’ve seen it all…” Coach McCarthy commented to reporters Wednesday. “Sometimes things like this happen; thankful no one was hurt,”

The room in question was thankfully empty, and the fire was put out quickly.

“The Oxnard Fire Department was outstanding,” McCarthy said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, and although the team’s practice schedule was not affected, ESPN’s Todd Archer is reporting that a couple of Cowboys players had to move to new rooms for the final two nights of camp.

“It was a very unfortunate situation,” McCarthy continued. “No one was injured, but it’s definitely something we can learn from.”

It’s not known which players were displaced or whether any of their personal items were lost or damaged.

“Fire, it’s scary, the damage it can do and has done. Some individuals have been affected by it, no doubt about it.”

McCarthy did not go into any further detail about the incident, but he did suggest that team staffers were among the first to respond, even using fire extinguishers, presumably before firefighters arrived on the scene.

“Thankful that we had people that jumped right in there and were on top of it,” he said.