Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Chattanooga, TN – Fire in cotton bales at ADM plant contained with help from sprinkler system July 24, 2016 viking210 Chattanooga firefighters battled a fire in South Chattanooga at ADM Southern Cellulose Products at 103 W. 45th Street on Thursday. Chattanooga Fire Department spokesman Bruce Garner says though there was only light smoke visible from the outside, once inside the large building, they could see dozens of cotton bales that were on fire. CFD says the company had recently repaired the sprinkler system in the building and it activated properly, which helped to keep the fire contained. A total of 13 fire companies responded to this fire. The fire was brought under control in 15 to 20 minutes. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire will be ruled accidental. Company executives told firefighters that the bales are held together by wire, and they believe a wire on one of the bales might have created a spark against the concrete while being moved by a forklift. When the spark hit the cotton, a fire broke out. About 200 bales of cotton were involved in the fire. The dollar loss was estimated at $30,000. The building itself was not damaged and company executives said the fire will have minimal impact on its operation.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Other Business Pottstown, PA – Sprinkler system activates to help save auto restoration business from overnight fire July 10, 2015 viking210 Seven fire companies responded to an early-morning alarm at the Eastwood Co. warehouse on Robinson Street Thursday for a blaze at the auto restoration supplier. Pottstown Fire Chief Richard Lengel said the alarm sounded at 4:52 a.m. when the sprinkler system at the business tripped. The fire was caused by a malfunction in the conveyer system, although it’s not exactly clear how that happened, Lengel said. All four of Pottstown’s fire companies — Goodwill, Empire, North End and the Phillies — responded to the scene as did Sanatoga, West End and Limerick fire companies from neighboring communities, Lengel said. New Hanover and Ringing Hill were on call while the fire was being fought. The fire itself was “not very big, it was under control by 5:21 a.m.,” Lengel said. The primary problem for firefighters was finding the flames. “The sprinkler did its job, so the place was filled with smoke and we had a hell of a time finding the actual fire,” Lengel said. Because of all the automotive restoration products in the building, and the chemicals they contain, Lengel said the firefighters used air masks for the first hour as a precaution. Estimating the damage is difficult, Lengel said, because he does not know the value of the conveyer system, “which may be computerized, I couldn’t be sure” and because of the amount of water damage done to very specialized automotive products. “But without the sprinklers, we wouldn’t have a building, and we would still be there now, and tomorrow and maybe the next day,” Lengel told The Mercury Thursday evening. “I’m serious, that’s a high-rack warehouse in there and who knows how long some of that stuff might have burned.” Eastwood Co., a supplier of auto restoration materials started out in Philadelphia in 1978 and has since made its headquarters just off Shoemaker Road in Pottstown.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Nashua, NH – Truck fire inside warehouse held in check by sprinkler system March 4, 2015 viking210 Firefighters quickly extinguished a truck fire Monday night inside a three-story warehouse on Bridge Street, which houses a truck repair shop and kitchen cabinet outlet. The building’s sprinkler system kept the fire in check. Fire crews arrived just after 10:30 PM to find a fire in the engine compartment of a plow truck parked in the rear garage area. Firefighters forced their way through double overhead doors to put out the fire. Some of the firefighting operations were delayed as crews encountered broken hydrants due to plow operations and a buried water shut off, fire officials said.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Sprinklers keep fire from spreading in UPS facility (Landover, MD) December 10, 2013 viking210 A UPS truck caught fire inside a shipping plant on Saturday, December 7, and fire crews quickly responded to the fire call. According to the Prince George County Fire Department, the fire sprinkler system in the shipping plant, which had activated in response to the heat of the fire, helped the firefighters to get the fire extinguished quickly. There were no injuries reported.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Sprinkler activates to halt storage room fire in chemical supply building (Bristol Township, PA) July 5, 2013 viking210 A chemical supply company had a fire erupt in it’s storage room the afternoon of July 4. The building, which was closed at the time, had a fire sprinkler system that quickly kicked in to contain the fire to the storage room. Fire crews blamed the fire on a short in the light fixture in the room, which then started the cardboard in the room on fire. No injuries were reported, and no chemicals were released.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Fire sprinklers keep fire from spreading in medical equipment building (Las Vegas, NV) March 20, 2013 viking210 A fire that began in one of the scooters that was housed in a medical supply business was limited thanks to the building’s fire sprinklers. Fire crews arrived to douse the remainder of the fire. No injuries were reported.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse UPS facility saved by fire sprinkler system (Violetville, MD) November 30, 2012 viking210 The Baltimore County Fire Department said that the call came in at about 9:45 a.m. reporting that a conveyer belt had caught fire. Batallion Chief Joe Brown said the fire was difficult to locate due to the smoke, size of the building and number/layers of conveyer belts. “Thankfully, the sprinkler system activated, suppressing the fire to the point that we could get in there,” he said.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Sprinkler system kept harbor fire from spreading (Kahului Harbor, Maui) July 30, 2012 viking210 Witnesses saw a teenager use a cigarette lighter to start a fire in a new canoe hale, built from traditional materials of dried palm leaves. The fire damaged about a 100 square feet of the structure before a sprinkler system kept it from spreading. The sprinkler system was installed to bring the structure into compliance with Maui’s building codes.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Chemical company fire extinguished by sprinkler system (Hinsdale, IL) June 20, 2012 viking210 A Willow Springs chemical company was saved on Monday because of an automatic fire sprinkler system, said the town’s fire chief. A box alarm and hazmat team was called, and members found a single sprinkler head extinguished the wooden pallets and two drums of materials that caught fire. “These systems are in place for this reason, I can not find a better example of why we require fire alarms and sprinklers,” said Willow Springs Fire Chief Larry Moran.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Fire sprinkler system saves wood chip storage building (Post Falls, ID) May 17, 2012 viking210 1 Comment Fire crews were dispatched just after 7:00 a.m. to a structure fire in a wood chip storage building at Potlatch Corp. The fire was caused by a mechanical failure of a piece of equipment; this caused wood chips and saw dust to catch fire. Officials say the fire sprinkler system kept the fire small until the trained on site fire crew was able to put water on it.
