*** FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED – NO MEDIA COVERAGE *** A three-story apartment building caught on fire on Monday afternoon after a candle was left unattended. When fire crews arrived to the apartment, they found that there was no fire showing from the outside of the building, and upon investigating the unit in which the fire began, discovered that the fire had been mostly extinguished by a single sprinkler head. There were no injuries reported.
Apartment fire squelched by sprinklers (Ft. Wayne, IN)
Fire at high school quickly doused by sprinkler system (Chicago, IL)
*** FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED – NO MEDIA COVERAGE *** An explosion occurred during a cooking class at a high school on Wednesday. The fire began when students ignited a gas burner; the fire then went up to the ceiling, at which point the fire sprinkler system eliminated the flames.
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Sprinklers aid firefighters in fire at supercenter (Newport, RI)
Chemical fire controlled by sprinkler system (Mansfield, TX)
Hotel fire contained by sprinkler system (Hawley, PA)
Sprinkler helps save apartment building from fire (Knoxville, TN)
Apartment fire controlled by sprinkler system (Covington, LA)
Fire sprinklers save historic building (Barre, VT)
A historic building which houses several apartments had a fire begin in a fourth floor unit. The fire began when items that were cooking on the stove were left unattended. The sprinkler system, reacting to the heat from the fire, activated and eliminated the blaze.
There were no injuries reported from the incident.
