A prank call leads to $50.000 worth of damage at a Conway hotel.

It happened at about 6:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Express on Sanders Street.

Police say a person called the front desk and said they were an employee at a fire sprinkler service.  Officer Sharen Carter says the caller told the clerk there was a problem with the sprinklers and the clerk needed to reset them by pulling the fire alarm.  She complied, which caused the alarm go off.

Police say the caller then told her to pull the lever on the fire alarm down, but she was unable to do so.  Carter says the caller then instructed the clerk that she needed to break the windows to keep the sprinklers from activating.  The clerk and a hotel guest then started breaking the windows with a fire extinguisher. 

His instructions didn't end there.  The caller then told the clerk she needed to remove a portion of a sprinkler head to keep it from going off.  Carter says the clerk broke off the sprinkler head, but that caused the hotel to start flooding.  The caller instructed them that they needed to reset the control panel for the system.  The hotel guest said they were unable to do so because of the water from the sprinkler and the caller said they must shut off the power to the hotel.

The two complied and when law enforcement finally arrived, about 150 guests were waiting outside in the parking lot.

KARK 4 contacted the hotel guest who assisted the clerk.  He said he had no comment but he called this a "domestic act of terrorism."  Hotel managers declined to comment.

No one has been arrested.  Police say a Little Rock Holiday Inn Express received a similar phone call.  Officer Carter said if any business manager receives a similar sounding phone call, just call 911.