A five-alarm blaze in a Hyannis hotel was under control by late afternoon Sunday, but firefighters were expected to remain on scene into the night as they continued to put out hot spots, fire department officials said.
The fire broke out at the Hyannis Harbor Hotel at 213 Ocean St. at 2:52 p.m., Hyannis fire Captain Mark Storie said. Crews were alerted by an automatic alarm.
The fire was mostly contained to one wing, Storie said, but had spread through the walls and up into the attic before breaking through the roof of the two-story hotel.
Most of the flames were out by 5:30 p.m., Storie said, but the building sustained significant damage.
“It’s under control, but I think we’re going to be there for a good part of the night,” he said.
No injuries had been reported as of 6:30 p.m. Hotel guests were immediately evacuated after the fire started, Storie said.
The Red Cross of Massachusetts said in a Twitter post that it was responding to help “an unknown number” of adults and children displaced by the fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, and the state fire marshal was called to the scene, Storie said.
The same hotel sustained $100,000 in damage from a three-alarm blaze in 2016. The hotel was undergoing renovations at the time of the fire, converting the building into a year-round establishment, according to Globe reports. Storie recalled another big fire at the property in the early 1990s in a different wing of the hotel.
Storie said Sunday’s blaze spread into empty spaces in the walls and attic, where crews were continuing to put out hot spots Sunday evening.
“With the renovation, there’s a lot of new construction over old construction and it has a lot of pockets and spots,” he said. “I’ve got to believe we’re going to be there for a while.”
Globe correspondent Adam Sennott contributed to this report.
Nick Stoico can be reached at nick.stoico@globe.com.