Hotel / Motel, Hotel / Restaurant Sprinkler system assists firefighters at hotel fire (Sioux Falls, SD) July 21, 2014 viking210 Firefighters responded to a fire at a hotel at 9:30 on Thursday, July 17. The three-story hotel’s fire began in a clothes dryer in the hotel’s first floor. The hotel’s occupants evacuated safely while the sprinkler system went off and kept the fire from spreading further. The fire was put out within 10 minutes. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.