Hotel / Motel, Hotel / Restaurant Cottage Grove, MN – Overnight hotel fire knocked down by sprinkler system; No injuries reported April 24, 2018 viking210 A hotel in the east metro was evacuated early Thursday after a blaze broke out. At about 2:45 a.m. emergency units responded to a report of a room on fire at the Country Inn and Suites in Cottage Grove. The building sprinkler system had knocked down the fire and Cottage Grove crews extinguished any remaining blaze. Crews from St. Paul Park and Woodbury assisted on the scene. There were no reports of any injuries.