Investigators: No alarms sounded in IHOP fire

REVERE – State investigators want to know why an early Sunday morning fire inside the Squire Road International House of Pancakes did not trip heat and smoke alarms.
Revere Deputy Fire Chief Glen Rich said the 3:23 a.m. fire caused an estimated $250,000 damage to the 105 Square Rd. franchise. The restaurant when the fire started, but Rich said no customers or firefighters were hurt.
The blaze scorched the roof line and a section of the distinctive blue A-frame style building?s chimney and left soot piled around a rear door. State Police and Department of Fire Services investigators moved in and out of the closed restaurant mid-morning Monday, pinpointing the circumstances of what Fire Services spokeswoman Jennifer Mieth described as a kitchen grease fire.
?We have an ongoing code compliance investigation into why the heat and smoke alarm system did not activate and into whether or not the kitchen suppression system functioned as it is supposed to,” Mieth said in a statement.
Rich said police officers called in the fire report and said four fire crews extinguished the fire in about an hour.