Hotel / Motel, Hotel / Restaurant Vancouver, BC, Canada – Sprinkler system assists firefighters in extinguishing hotel fire September 30, 2016 viking210 Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that broke out early Wednesday morning at the Regent Hotel in Vancouver. Vancouver Fire and Rescue spokesman Capt. Jonathan Gormick says crews were called out shortly after 4 a.m. to the fire, which started in a suite of the hotel, located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. When they arrived, firefighters found heavy smoke in the building and a small fire contained to one suite, with the sprinkler system activated. Hastings Street was shut down between Columbia and Main while firefighters put out the blaze, but has since reopened. No one was injured. Gormick says at this time the fire does not appear suspicious.
