Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Arcola, IL – Fire at senior living facility contained to one room by sprinkler system June 29, 2016 viking210 In a fire minutes count. Practice and training pay off. On Saturday morning at about 1:30am staff at Carriage Crossing in the Green Mill Village development in Arcola noticed smoke. Within moments are fire sprinkler was activated and staff at the assisted living facility began evacuating residents near the area of the fire. With the help of firefighters all 46 residents were removed from the building. “Those individuals and those residents were out within seven minutes. So the training paid off. Everyone stayed very calm,” Cassie Yoder of Green Mill Village told WAND’s Doug Wolfe. “Residents were with the people they knew.” Residents are now housed in the adjoining Best Western Plus which is a sister property to Carriage Crossing. Residents and staff have settled in to a normal routine. On Monday, clean-up was underway. “Most of the damage is just from the sprinkler system and water damage,” said co-owner Jeff Bentley. “It’s contained to one room and at this point we don’t know what caused it yet.” Bentley says his company has constructed a new facility in Champaign that is similar to the one in Arcola. His staff is attempting to get state licensing to speed up so some of the residents can be moved to Champaign. The state fire marshal’s office was at Carriage Crossing on Monday attempting to determine a cause of the fire.
