Apartment Building, Residential Madison, WI – Cooking fire in apartment building put out by sprinkler system February 28, 2015 viking210 The Madison Fire Department credits sprinklers with putting out a cooking fire in an apartment on West Mifflin Street. Firefighters were called to the 500 block of W. Mifflin just before 3 p.m. Friday. They say someone in a third floor apartment was cooking when oil in a pan ignited. The flames set off a sprinkler head in the kitchen. The fire department says there was minimal smoke damage from the fire, but some water did flow into lower floors. Seventeen people in the apartment building are safe. The fire department says there’s no word on when residents would be able to get back into their apartments, but all of them were able to arrange a place to stay overnight.
