Apartment Building, Residential Aiken, SC – Sprinkler system keeps overnight apartment fire from spreading June 22, 2017 viking210 The Aiken Department of Public Safety is investigating an early morning fire Sunday at an apartment complex on Hollow Tree Drive in Aiken that left multiple people homeless. Sgt. Michael Grabowski, with Aiken Public Safety, said fire crews responded to Hollow Tree Drive around 12 a.m. “It was a small fire,” Grabowski said. “Crews came in quick and got it under control as fast as they could.” Two apartments caught fire, but the buildings sprinkler systems helped prevent the fire from being worse, Grabowski said. No one was injured in the fire, he said. American Red Cross disaster-trained volunteers reported Sunday morning that they are assisting multiple families whose homes were damaged by the fire.
