UPDATE @ 7:53 p.m.:
A woman left cooking unattended tonight when she was accidentally locked out of her second-floor hotel suite.
Firefighters were called just after 6 p.m. on a report of a structure fire at Hawthorn Suites By Wyndam, 155 Prestige Place Drive.
"She couldn't get back to the cooking quick enough," said Battalion Chief Steve Meadows of the Miami Valley Fire District. "By the time she got back entry into her own unit there was a fire there."
Crews were able to quickly put out the blaze. The fire did not extend to the attic, Meadows said, "which pretty much kept 90 percent of the damage to the primary apartment."
Damages were estimated at $75,000, and the woman renting the suite is the only person displaced, Meadows said.
FIRST TAKE
Heavy smoke was showing when fire crews responded tonight to an extended stay hotel.
Firefighters were called just after 6 p.m. to 155 Prestige Place Drive near the Dayton Mall.
The hotel fire was confined to one unit of the Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham.
It started in the kitchen as a grease fire, according to the Miami Valley Fire District.
There were no injuries.
