If you were heading back to your room at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge on Saturday night dreaming of a quiet evening after a long day in the parks… well, your night probably didn’t go as planned.
Just after 8:30 p.m., guests were met with loud fire alarms echoing through the resort, flashing lights, and staff directing people toward the lobby. For some families, it meant standing around in damp clothes with exhausted kids. For others, it meant not being able to get back into their rooms at all.
And now, we’ve got video proof of just how wild the situation got. A clip making the rounds on social media shows flooding right inside the lobby. You can see water glistening on the floor—likely from the overhead sprinklers that kicked in once the alarms went off.
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There’s still no word from Disney about what exactly caused the emergency response. Was it a fire? A glitch? A false alarm? We don’t know yet. But we do know it caused a pretty big disruption, especially for those who were relocated due to water-damaged rooms.
That said, a lot of guests are giving major props to the Cast Members. Apparently, they handled the chaos like pros—handing out bottled water, passing out snacks, and trying to keep everyone calm and updated as much as they could. One guest even said the team at Whispering Canyon was “so nice” even with everything going on.
If you’ve got an upcoming stay booked, don’t stress too much. Incidents like this are super rare, and Disney has well-practiced emergency procedures in place for exactly this kind of thing. It’s not fun when it happens, but the resort seemed to bounce back pretty quickly.
For the guests who lived through it, it was definitely a night to remember—just not in the way they expected. Wilderness Lodge usually feels like a frontier escape, but on Saturday night? It was more like a waterlogged wild west.
