MANHATTAN - On Thursday afternoon, just after 12:45 pm, the Manhattan Fire Department was called out to the Quality Inn and Suites on East Poyntz Avenue on the report of a fire alarm sounding.
Dispatch advised, while crews were en route, that there was the possibility of a fire, and dispatched more units to the scene.
Upon arrival, crews found a mulch fire had spread into the exterior wall of the building.
Crews then evacuated the building, opened the wall up and had extinguised the fire within 10 minutes.
Sixteen firefighters with five fire apparatus responded to the scene, with the last crew clearing the scene around 2:00 pm.
No injuries were reported.
The hotel is a three-story building with an active building permit to repair the upper floors of the structure.
The building was able to be occupied after the fire.
Damage caused by the fire is estimated at a loss of $2,000 to contents and $5,000 to the structure.
The owner is listed as Krishna Hospitality Inc. with the registered agent listed as Nitin Patel of Lawrence, KS. The fire cause is accidental due to improperly discarded smoking materials.