Landmark California hotel, nearly 100 years old, destroyed by fire

Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at the historic Hotel Marysville in Marysville, California, on 15 June 2024. Photograph: Marysville Fire Department of California

An almost century-old historic hotel in northern California that once hosted Babe Ruth and Bing Crosby was destroyed by a fire over the weekend.

Crews responded to Hotel Marysville around 10pm on Saturday night and tried to save the long-vacant 98-year-old inn, but the flames burned away the building’s internal components and left only a “skeleton”, Kyle Heggstrom, the Marysville fire chief, told the Sacramento Bee.