Hotel / Restaurant, Restaurant Fairview Heights, IL – Sprinklers contain early morning fire at popular restaurant June 26, 2015 viking210 Lotawata Creek, a popular Fairview Heights restaurant, was damaged in a fire Saturday morning, Fairview Heights firefighters said. Chief Bryan Doyle of the Fairview Heights Fire Department said they got the alarm call just before 7 a.m. He also said they were flooded with 9-1-1 calls from the hotel nearby when smoke started coming out of the building. Doyle said the security footage showed the fire burning for about an hour before the alarm went off. Additional fire departments — Collinsville, O’Fallon and French Village — were called in to assist on the fire when it reached the ceiling of the restaurant . Doyle said the sprinkler system was what kept the building from being a total loss. He said he thought the building would be able to open anywhere from two to four weeks. Doyle called for the Illinois Fire Marshal to investigate the fire to find a cause for the insurance company, he said there was no foul play suspected.
