On September 29, a single Disneyland Resort guest was taken to a nearby hospital after authorities responded to a reported exposure to toxic fumes at the Pixar Place Hotel. The Anaheim Fire Department quickly arrived on the scene to handle the situation.
Pixar Place Hotel reopened in 2024 following its reimagining from Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel, following the transformation of Paradise Pier into Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure Park. This update is only the latest chapter in the hotel’s history, which began in 1984 as the Emerald Hotel of Anaheim. Over the years, it underwent multiple rebrandings, including The Pan Pacific Hotel Anaheim in 1989, Disneyland Pacific Hotel in the mid-1990s, and Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel in 2000.
Nearly two years after the most recent reimagining, a “hazmat incident” prompted emergency response at the hotel on September 29, 2025. Minutes after the response, Reddit user u/Old-Illustrator-5246 shared a screenshot from a scanner app showing publicly available details, posting:
what happened at pixar place hotel. The fire department is there.
what happened at pixar place hotel. The fire department is there.
byu/Old-Illustrator-5246 inDisneyland
“I’m sorry for the person but like what happened… I wanna know is it like a tanker truck, cleaning chemicals, or a natural gas leak or something?” the Redditor asked.
While other Disney Parks fans on Reddit had no additional information, the YouTube channel OC LOWDOWN released a video reporting on the incident. It included an interview with Anaheim Fire and Rescue Captain Michel Bowidowicz. According to the captain, only one Disneyland Resort guest required hospital transport after the exposure. The guest reportedly called authorities around 4:30 p.m. on the day of the incident.
“[We] dispatched a full hazmat response to this location where we found one patient that inhaled some bleach fumes, and we have transported the one patient off scene,” Bowidowicz explained.
The fumes were linked to routine cleaning of a restaurant at Pixar Place Hotel. Captain Bowidowicz noted the fumes “can be” very toxic when inhaled, but the Anaheim Fire Department determined the area was safe for reopening without additional ventilation.
“Our units on scene monitored the air,” he said. “There is no more hazard. Natural ventilation took over.”
Disneyland Resort security personnel managed the necessary evacuations, while the Anaheim Fire Department conducted its investigation. All affected areas of Pixar Place Hotel have since reopened, and there is no current risk to Disney Resort guests. The condition of the hospitalized guest has not been released.
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