Reports: 100 Firefighters Douse Hotel Blaze on Richmond Highway

A middle-of-the-night fire at a Richmond Highway hotel roused guests out of their beds and took hours to extinguish, according to a report by NBC-4.

A hundred firefighters from Fairfax County Fire and Rescue responded at 2:18 a.m. Sunday to the blaze at the Quality Inn and Suites, located at 8800 Richmond Highway, according to the TV station report.

Fairfax County Fire Chief Randy Bittinger told the TV station that it was an electrical fire.

WUSA reports that two people were injured and 200 were evacuated.