The sprinkler system extinguished the fire. St. Paul Fire Department also responded promptly.… Continue Reading »
Category Archives: Residential
Oswego, NY – No injuries reported in apartment fire contained by sprinkler system
Oswego Fire Department personnel were called to a multiple-story building at 131 W. First St. at 6:42 p.m. Monday with reports of smoke filling an apartment. Crews were first alerted to smoke in an apartment on the 6th floor, ultimately locating a fire in an occupied apartment on the first floor. … Continue Reading »
Fargo, ND – Garage fire in row house building held in check by sprinkler system
East Wenatchee, WA – Sprinkler system limits damage in apartment kitchen fire; No injuries reported
The sprinkler systems that are required by code in East Wenatchee apartment buildings worked perfectly Monday to keep a stove fire from spreading according to fire investigator Brian Brett. Crews were called just after 11am to the Bello Rio Apartments in the 2-thousand block of Northwest Cascade Avenue. … Continue Reading »
Charlottetown, PE, Canada – Sprinkler system activates to help control apartment fire
A Charlottetown woman will be out of her apartment for a couple of days after a fire in another apartment set off the sprinkler system in hers, says the Red Cross. The occupants of seven apartments on Royal Court, off Queen Street, were forced from their homes by the fire early Sunday morning. … Continue Reading »
Abingdon, MD – Fire officials credit sprinkler system with containing townhouse fire to room of origin
Newark, NJ – Fires set by arsonists dressed as ninjas doused by apartment building’s sprinkler system
Yuma, AZ – Apartment kitchen fire suppressed by sprinkler system
The City of Yuma Fire Department responded to an alarm at around 1:00 p.m. indicating a fire sprinkler in an apartment at the Palo Verde Villa Apartments Thursday afternoon. Yuma Fire Department personnel arrived and made entry into the second story apartment, finding extreme heat built inside.… Continue Reading »
Northbridge, MA – Fire in light fixture at nursing home extinguished by sprinkler system; No injuries reported
Antioch, CA – Fire sprinkler in garage prevents helps prevent spread of house fire
Fire investigators were seeking a person or people suspected of setting several fires Sunday night and Monday morning, including one that burned a church in Antioch, officials said. Fire crews also knocked down a fire that started in a garbage can outside a Brentwood house and spread to the outside walls and attic of the home, Battalion Chief Ross Macumber, a spokesman for the East Contra Costa Fire District, said. … Continue Reading »
