Hotel / Motel, Hotel / Restaurant Chester, VA – Recent hotel cooking fire contained by sprinkler system; No injuries September 3, 2015 viking210 A cooking-related fire prompted the evacuation of a residential hotel in Chester last month. On Aug. 18 at 11 a.m., county firefighters were dispatched for a fire alarm activation at the InTown Suites hotel at 2601 Perdue Springs Drive, just north of the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and State Route 10. On arrival, they found water flowing from a sprinkler head that had activated near the stove in a second-floor room but no active fire. The hotel’s management was in the process of evacuating the building. A pot was in the sink, and both the nearby cabinets and microwave had sustained smoke damage. But the fire sprinkler system did its job and contained the fire to the stovetop; as a result, all residents escaped the hotel safely, and there were no injuries.
