Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential

Hampton, VA – Sprinkler system contains fire at senior apartment building; no injuries

Hampton Division of Fire and Rescue responded to a fire in an apartment complex Wednesday morning, officials said. Dispatch was notified about 10 a.m. of a working incident at the Tidewater Senior Apartments in the 1400 block of West Queen Street.

The fire was put out shortly before 10:20 a.m., dispatch said.

The fire began in a third-floor unit’s bathroom, and it was contained by a sprinkler system until Hampton firefighters arrived on scene, Battalion Chief T.A. Hinton said.

The two units beneath the third-floor apartment suffered minor water damage because of the sprinkler system, Hinton said.

No one was displaced by the incident, and no injuries were reported.

Fire investigators determined the blaze was caused by a bathroom vent fan that malfunctioned, Hinton said.