Andrea Thompson says it is "such an inspiration" to see younger women competing in Colchester.
The fire starts in a fryer before spreading to the roof of the chip shop.
Villagers say they were not notified about an exercise simulating a nuclear weapons accident.
The A400M Atlas tactical transport aircraft will use RAF Honington, Bury St Edmunds, for training.
Three weeks of activities involving transport military planes and helicopters are planned.
A service to remember the serviceman who went missing in Bury St Edmunds in 2016 will be held in August.
His family say it fills them with "immense pride" that he will be recognised as a serving airman.
An inquest concluded the airman died after he climbed into a bin that was tipped into a waste lorry.
Jurors heard two weeks of evidence about the disappearance of the RAF's Corrie Mckeague on a night out.
