No injuries were reported, but employees and customers evacuated the store.
Yellowknife, NT, Canada – Sprinkler system contains fire at hotel caused by young person playing with lighter
Madison, WI – Residents and pets evacuated safely as sprinkler system tackles apartment cooking fire
Chillicothe, OH – Laundry fire at correctional facility controlled with help from sprinkler system
Personnel stated that they were alerted to the fire by the fire alarm system and investigated a nearby room and smelled smoke. Their security staff pulled up the camera in the laundry service room and saw smoke rolling across the ceiling in that room. They attempted to extinguish the fire with 2 dry chemical extinguishers but were unable to put out the fire as smoke got too heavy for them. They then called the Chillicothe Fire Department which was at the scene nearly two hours.
It was just past 12:30 this morning when Chillicothe fire responded to the scene at 3151 Litton Road with two fire engines and six personnel.
Wilmington, DE – Fire at Amtrak maintenance building contained to area of origin by sprinkler system
Danville, VA – Sprinkler systems assists firefighters in extinguishing senior apartment blaze
Marion, IA – Fire at hotel contained to one room by sprinkler system
Guests evacuate a hotel in Marion due to a fire Sunday morning. Marion Fire Department responded to a fire report from the Microtel Inn and Suites in the 5000 block of Dryer Avenue. Crews arrived as light smoke was coming from the building. The Marion Fire Chief says the fire was coming from one of the rooms on the first floor. The fire sprinkler system did go off, and the fire was contained to just the one room.
Everyone evacuated the building and waited in the parking lot, no one was injured.