The Town Centre Hotel in The Pas is a total loss after a blaze tore through the building early Friday morning, according to fire officials.

Randy Manych, the acting fire chief of The Pas Fire Department, said initially crews were called to a garbage fire beside the hotel around 3:00 a.m., followed by a grass fire beside the hotel at 5:00 a.m.

Manych said that the buildings sprinkler system was shut down. 

He called the fire suspicious in nature. 

“Anytime there is a fire of this magnitude, you wonder what happened,” Manych said.

The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.