Category Archives: Hospital/Care Facility

Hospital/Care Facility, Hospital/Medical Clinic

Sprinkler system helps contain fire at psychiatric hospital (Morris Plains, NJ)

Firefighters responded to a fire in a patient’s bedroom at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Wednesday evening at 6:18 p.m. after receiving a report of a smoke condition in one of the second-floor bedroom’s in the F-wing of the hospital, Mount Tabor Assistant Fire Chief Bryan Crawford said. Crawford said the sprinkler system was able to limit the spread of the fire to the room itself.

Adult Care/Rehab Center, Hospital/Care Facility

Sprinkler extinguishes early morning fire at nursing home (St. Paul, MN)

Early Monday morning, firefighters were called out to 512 Humboldt Avenue after alarms began to sound.  Nursing home staff found a light fixture in one of the bathrooms had caught fire at 2:20 a.m. — but a single fire sprinkler extinguished the fire.  There were no reported injuries.  According to firefighters, none of the residents were ever aware of the ordeal and were able to sleep through the night undisturbed. Firefighters say the incident is proof that they were well-protected by the sprinkler system, which was installed only a year and a half ago.

Hospital/Care Facility

Senior living facility fire contained by sprinklers (Towson, MD)

Shortly before 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 4, a fire began in the kitchen of one of the unit’s of a high rise senior living facility. When fire crews arrived, they found heavy smoke on the fourth, fifth, and sixth floor, but the fire itself had been controlled by the room’s fire sprinkler. Firefighters were able to put out the fire within 20 minutes. There were no injuries reported.

Hospital/Care Facility, Other - Hospital/Medical

Sprinklers control assisted living facility fire (Trotwood, OH)

Thirty-five residents were evacuated safely and temporarily when a fire began in an assisted living facility on Sunday. The fire started in a dryer in the facility’s laundry room, and the installed fire sprinklers kept the fire from spreading until fire crews arrived to put out the remaining flames. No residents were injured or displaced because of the incident.

Hospital/Care Facility, Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential

Fire extinguished by sprinkler system at senior living/retirement village (Oklahoma City, OK)

** NO MEDIA COVERAGE – FIRE SPRINKLER CONTRACTOR REPORTED **

On Monday, April 14 at 4:21 am a resident at the HUD facility, Superbia Retirement Village, had a “smoking material” fire. The fire sprinklers, which were installed in the late 1990’s, successfully activated and saved the occupant(s) lives.

Hospital/Care Facility, Hospital/Medical Clinic

Fire sprinkler system extinguished midday fire at hospital (Philadelphia, PA)

No one was injured as a result of a fire that broke out at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. HUP also continued to see patients while the situation was ongoing. The fire began at around 12 p.m. in the basement of the Founders Building, when construction workers were removing medical equipment from one of the rooms. When the fire broke out, the fire sprinklers were able to quickly put it out, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. The basement room in the Founders Building where the fire originated suffered “minimal damages,” according to Rush.

Hospital/Care Facility, Hospital/Medical Clinic

Arson fire at treatment center extinguished by sprinklers (Sheshatshiu, NL)

Four youths have been charged with arson in connection with a fire Wednesday night that started in a bedroom at the Charles J. Andrew Treatment Centre in Sheshatshiu. The Sheshatshiu Fire Department and the North West River Fire Department responded but the sprinkler system in the building had already extinguished the small fire.

Hospital/Care Facility, Hospital/Medical Clinic

Sprinkler system puts out fire at hospital (San Bernadino, CA)

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Fire investigators are still looking into the cause of a fire at a hospital on the afternoon of September 21. Fire sprinklers activated and completely extinguished the fire prior to the arrival of fire crews. 

“Sprinkler systems, if they don’t extinguish fires, keep them in check,” Battalion Chief Alan Duggan said. “The sprinklers worked properly and the fire was extinguished prior to our crews’ arrival.”

The facility, which was evacuated, reported no injuries from the incident.