The fire began at about 8:42 a.m. Friday, at the 1500 block of E. Whaley Street. May said the small fire was extinguished by the sprinkler system.
May reports the damage was minimal with mostly water damage caused by the sprinkler. There were no injuries to the two people home at the time of the fire.
May said it appears to have been an accidental fire and the cause is under investigation.
Crews arrived shortly after 2:21 p.m. and were advised that the fire was on the second floor.
Upon locating the room, firefighters discovered that a fire sprinkler “had activated and extinguished a cooking fire.”
After ensuring that the fire was extinguished, crews “controlled the sprinkler system and started salvage operations on the first floor to reduce damage.” They also used ventilation fans to remove smoke.
No injuries were reported, and the occupants of the room were relocated.
Following the incident, NCFD is reminding the public of these facts:
Firefighters responded at 2:05 a.m. to a reported structure fire in the 800 block of Spring Mountain Lane. Engine 11 and Engine 311 arrived to heavy black smoke coming from the residence and reports of a trapped resident, the district said in a news release.
After a complete search by firefighters and assisting agencies, all residents were accounted for.
Mutual aid was provided by Vallejo Fire Department, Napa County Fire Department and Napa City Fire Department.
Eight victims were transported to area hospitals for minor smoke inhalation, the district said.
A residential fire sprinkler system was instrumental in providing early suppression and egress for the residents, the district said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Around 2:30 p.m. last Sunday, the Ocean City Fire Department (OCFD) responded to a fire alarm activation at the Stowaway Grand Hotel on 22nd Street. First-arriving firefighters located the hotel’s alarm panel and determined the source of the activation was on the fifth floor. Four OCFD firefighters operating in groups of two made their way to the fifth floor from inside the building and found a smoke and fire condition in an electrical closet.
OCFD spokesman Ryan Whittington said crews were able to put out that fire with dry chemical extinguishers and that firefighters wouldn’t use water in a fire of that type because it was electrical in nature. With that situation well in hand, Whittington said while on the fifth floor, firefighters were alerted to another potential fire on the sixth floor above.
The crews made their way to the sixth floor and found an active fire and smoke conditions. As firefighters were preparing to tackle that blaze, the hotel’s sprinkler system activated and put out the fire.
The entire situation was brought under control around 3:40 p.m. on Sunday, or a little over an hour after the first alarm activation. Whittington said the protocol for the fire department in that case was to send the high-rise package, which includes larger apparatus and equipment.
“Because the Stowaway Grand is considered a high-rise in terms of the number of floors, there are certain things we have to do,” he said. “We actually deployed our high-rise package, which includes the ladder trucks and larger apparatus equipped with a larger amount of hose and larger caliber hoses.”
Hundreds of hotel guests were evacuated during the incident, resulting in some quick thinking by the command staff.
“Battalion Chief David Peterson had command and he requested a city bus,” said Whittington. “There were hundreds of guests milling around and waiting to get back in, and having the bus there provided a place for them to sit down and relax in the air conditioning.”
Whittington said the fire department’s protocols and training prevented what could have been a much more serious situation.
“Everything worked like it should have,” he said. “To our guys’ credit, they really saved the building from much more damage.”
Hours later, the OCFD responded to another residential fire at a condominium on Trimper Avenue, according to Whittington.
“We arrived and found a heavy smoke condition on the first floor,” he said. “Crews made their way to the third floor and found a basket of blankets and other materials in a storage closet too close to a heat source and it combusted. We believe a light bulb might have started the fire, but it is still under investigation. In that incident, the condo’s sprinkler system activated and extinguished the fire.”
Deputy Chief Chad Courtemanche said crews were called to the Emanuel Lutheran Church a little after 3 p.m., on an alarm call after the alarm system detected sprinkler flow.
Crews arrived to find heavy smoke in the building and soon learned the fire in the pipe organ was being held in check by sprinklers, Courtemanche said.
As a result of the sprinklers, “the fire was burning slow and creating a lot of smoke, so we vented the smoke and put out the fire,” Courtemanche said.
There were no reported injuries.
Crews used a large, truck-mounted ventilation fan designed for large buildings to vent a large amount of smoke from the church. Courtemanche said damage appeared to be light, under the circumstances, with fire damage confined mostly to the organ, and mostly just smoke and water damage elsewhere.
He said much of the wooden church, and even some books not far from the blaze, appeared to have suffered minimal damage.
Pastor Daniel W. Spigelmyer Jr., said the pipe organ is about 150 years old, and is a major sentimental and historical loss for the church.
Crews remained at the scene for about two hours.
Charleston County dispatch shows a reported fire at the Citadel.
The call came in at around 6:29 pm on Sunday, August 23.
Citadel officials say the fire was caused by an air conditioning unit that is above one of the barracks on campus.
The barracks were evacuated.
The fire caused the school’s sprinkler system to activate, which took care of the fire.
Officials say no one was injured during the fire.
Some 48 Cincinnati firefighters responded to the tower at 425 Walnut St. after a fire alarm went off shortly before 10 p.m., the department said in a press release.
The first fire companies to arrive asked dispatch to send a full high-rise complement of firefighters after determining that the alarm was sounding on the eighth floor and that smoke was visible there, the release said.
Firefighters subsequently discovered a small fire in one office that was mostly contained by the sprinkler system.
“The remaining fire was extinguished with a water can,” the release said.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire.
Operating smoke detectors were in place.
The release said there was fire damage to the office, smoke damage to the eighth and ninth floors, minor water damage to the seventh floor and heavy water damage to the eighth floor.
“The cause of the fire was due to an employee operating a riding floor cleaner who had run over a piece of pallet,” Blaskey said. “The floor cleaner began to smoke and caught fire.”
Joliet’s fire chief said that the floor cleaner was powered by propane, and the tank had ruptured from the fire, causing the explosion.
Joliet firefighters found the warehouse full of smoke upon arrival. Fortunately, Blaskey said, the building’s sprinkler system activated and extinguished the fire. Joliet firefighters remained on the scene to help with overhaul and ventilation, the chief said.
Blaskey said the Petco building did not sustain any significant damage. He said there were about a dozen employees working at the time.
The chief credited the building’s sprinkler system for keeping the building damage minimal.
“There’s a reason sprinklers are in place, to give people time to escape when there’s a fire,” he said.
A fire in machinery caused about $10,000 in Appleton early Tuesday morning.
Appleton Fire says it was dispatched to a business in the 2600 block of W. Second Street for a report of a water flow alarm shortly after 5 a.m.
While en route, fire crews were updated that there was smoke in the building and a suspected fire.
When crews arrived, Appleton Fire says they found a fire in a piece of machinery that had traveled through a duct to another room.
The automatic fire sprinkler system in the building was controlling the fire, according to Appleton Fire. Crews were able to quickly extinguish the fire and turned off the sprinkler system.
No injuries were reported and the business will be able to open on Tuesday because of the properly functioning sprinkler and alarm systems.
Appleton fire says the cause of the fire is due to a process malfunction.