No one was injured in an Asheboro apartment fire Thursday evening.

According to Chief Danny Floyd with the Asheboro Fire Department, firefighters responded to the West Pointe Apartment Homes, located at 635 Oak Leaf Road, at approximately 5:40 p.m.

The fire, which was caused by items burned on a stove top, was out by the time firefighters arrived on scene.

There was minor fire damage to the kitchen, Floyd said, but the majority of the damage was caused by water from the apartment’s fire sprinklers.

The water damage also impacted two other apartment units.

Firefighters remained on scene for two hours for ventilation, salvage and investigation.

Sarah Israel, who lives in an apartment unit beside the one that caught fire, said she came outside of her apartment and noticed that her neighbor’s door was drenched with water.

“I live right beside her and I heard an alarm,” Israel said, “but that alarm sounded so distant that it didn’t alarm me to come outside and say ‘what is that?’ ”

It wasn’t until Israel wandered outside that she noticed the damp door and was able to tell that the alarm she was hearing was coming from the unit right beside her own.

“I think if I wouldn’t have come outside, it would have been a lot worse because I was the first one to hear.”