Slingerman, also a Vienna resident, said he had been a customer of the Vienna Inn since 1960, when his father first took him to the restaurant. I’m not a building contractor, though."īut Vienna resident Donnie Cooke, a friend of Volk and long-time customer of the Vienna Inn, said that even if the entire restaurant burned to the ground, the community would "have to pitch in and rebuild." On Wednesday morning, at around 8:30, Cooke gathered with friends Ron Slingerman and Jim Cronin to watch as firemen removed pieces of scorched debris from the restaurant. "There is some structural damage," McKernan said. But McKernan was "not so sure it will be possible to rebuild." He said the summer is the restaurant’s busiest season. "I’m not going to go work at McDonald's."Ī friend, who works as a building contractor, said Volk would be lucky to re-open for the Fourth of July weekend. Since there was no damage to the dining room or kitchen, Volk hoped to re-open the restaurant soon. The fire damage was concentrated in two rooms - the restaurant office and a dry storage room. But fire investigator Dave McKernan, captain of the Fairfax Fire and Rescue Fire Investigators Unit, said he couldn’t rule out any possible cause of the fire. Volk himself speculated that the fire was probably electrical. Later firefighters told Volk the fire was probably accidental. When Volk arrived at his restaurant, firefighters were already battling the blaze. An officer from the Vienna Police Department had noticed a fire at the restaurant one hour earlier, at around 3:30 a.m. Police woke up Marty Volk, owner of the Vienna Inn, at around 4:30 Wednesday morning. Early last Wednesday morning, June 19, a two-alarm fire started at a Vienna landmark causing $125,000 in damage.
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