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Sandstone found near Palliser hotel spurs concern of falling debris

City inspectors and the Calgary Fire Department are examining the outside of the Fairmont Palliser Hotel after pieces of sandstone were found on a nearby sidewalk. Officials are looking into how the debris got there, but say no one was injured.

No one injured after 2 pieces of sandstone were located on 1st Street S.W. sidewalk

Watch as fire crews inspect the side of the Palliser hotel.

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City investigators are on site at the Fairmont Palliser hotel after two palm-sized pieces of sandstone were found on a nearby sidewalk.

City inspectors and the Calgary Fire Department are examiningthe outside of the FairmontPalliserHotel after pieces of sandstone were found on a nearby sidewalk.

The two palm-sized fragmentswere locatedon First Street S.W.

It is unclear at this point whether the debris fell off the building in downtown Calgary.

"At this point we have to assume it did, but there was no witness," said Jaqueline Tyler, a communications manager with Fairmont Palliser.

The fire department says no one was injured.

Traffic wasrerouted between Ninthand 10thavenues S.W. while officials investigated.

Crews closed down a portion of First Street southwest near the Palliser hotel temporarily after two sandstone fragments were discovered. (CBC)