Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Brick, NJ – Single sprinkler head contains laundry fire at nursing home January 7, 2016 viking210 Laundry ignited inside a nursing home early Wednesday morning, but one sprinkler kept the fire from spreading, Brick Fire Safety Chief Kevin Batzel said. Brick police and firefighters were called to the Meridian Nursing and Rehabilitation center on Jack Martin Boulevard at 4:40 a.m. where they found smoke in the facility’s basement, Batzel said. The fire was inside a large, industrial-sized laundry cart filled with towels that had been pulled from a dryer, he said. “It was being contained by a single fire sprinkler head, which had activated and caused an alarm in the building,” the fire safety chief said. “What could have been a potential catastrophe was prevented.”
