FARMVILLE – A fire tore through a portion of the Town Motel between midnight and 1 a.m. Thursday morning, destroying that collection of rooms but the occupants escaped unharmed, according to Farmville Fire Chief Ben Sears.

“We were dispatched about 12:30 this morning. There was a report of a fire in the rear building at the Town Motel,” Sears told The Herald.

“We did arrive on scene and two units in the building were fully involved (in flames), which spread to the remaining three units in the building, all within the same building,” he said.

The Town Motel's remaining buildings, however, were untouched and undamaged by the flames.

And nobody was hurt.

“All the occupants escaped, no injuries,” the fire chief reported of those living in the building struck by fire.

The occupants of the rooms destroyed by the fire, Town Manager Gerald Spates told The Herald, have been relocated to two motels in Farmville.

“There were no injuries. Fortunately there were no injuries,” said Spates, who was on the scene with firefighters from the Farmville Fire Department and Hampden-Sydney and Prospect.

“The fire departments did a great job saving the rest of the buildings. That was the main thing,” the town manager said.

Two firefighting vehicles were dispatched from the Farmville department, two from Hampden-Sydney and three from Prospect, according to the fire chief.

Sears said the cause of the fire is regarded as “accidental.”