A water gong alarm at 3:08 a.m. woke residents of a second-floor unit on the 3100 block of Canterfield Parkway East, and they soon realized the furniture on their balcony was on fire, according to a news release from the village.
All residents of the building had evacuated by the time firefighters arrived. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which authorities believe was caused by careless use of smoking materials, within five minutes, the news release said.
When the sprinkler system was triggered, the fire alarms sounded, dispatching the Franklin Fire Department to the location. Those crews arrived at Pediatric Associates of Franklin – located at 570 Baker’s Bridge Avenue – and found light smoke and one active sprinkler. The sprinkler had extinguished a fire in a patient examination room before firefighters made it there.
Franklin fire investigators said the damage was limited to the room where the small blaze began.
Damage to the building is estimated to be less than $10,000. No interruption of business or care is expected for the practice.
“She said, ‘The house is on fire,'” Douglas said.
Fortunately, Douglas’ 74-year-old mother and the rest of the residents of the seven-story Station 101 apartment building on Rantoul Street escaped unharmed in what Beverly Fire Department officials said could have turned into a much worse situation.
A fire that started in the kitchen of a fourth-floor apartment forced the evacuation of residents and caused about 30 of them to have to find another place to stay. A man in the apartment where the fire started was found unresponsive by firefighters in a smoke-filled bedroom, but he became alert when firefighters quickly got him outside and was seemingly uninjured, fire officials said.
Beverly fire Capt. Jeff Sirois said fire sprinklers proved effective in limiting the spread of the flames, although there was a “substantial” amount of smoke and water damage from the fourth floor to the first floor.
“In the grand scheme of things it could’ve been a lot worse if the building wasn’t sprinklered,” Sirois said.
Sirois said the cause of the fire is under investigation but might have been “cooking related.”
Firefighters were called to the building at 101 Rantoul St. at 11:45 p.m. and arrived to find the fourth-floor hallway filled with smoke from a kitchen fire in one of the apartments. Crews worked to fully extinguish the fire, which officials said had been held at bay by sprinklers.
Once the fire was out, crews ventilated the smoke and pulled ceiling tiles damaged by water on the first three floors. The Beverly Fire Department posted a fire watch overnight until the alarm system could be reactivated.
Station 101, formerly known as The Millery, has been an apartment building for decades. It has 99 one- and two-bedroom apartments and is valued at more than $10 million, according to city records. It is unclear how many people live there. Officials from Peabody Properties, which manages the building, did not return phone calls.
Douglas, 48, praised firefighters as well as the management company and the American Red Cross for their response to the fire. Douglas said the Red Cross gave residents gift cards for breakfast and hotel rooms. She and her mother spent Wednesday night in a hotel and were expected to stay one more night before returning to their apartment on Friday.
“Everybody was right on top of everything,” Douglas said.
Douglas said her apartment, which is two floors below the apartment where the fire started, had very little damage, other than wet furniture and rugs. She said there was up to two inches of water on the floor in the hallways below the fourth floor.
“For me, my mom got out,” she said. “Everything else is material stuff.”
Fire crews were called at 10:54 p.m. and found a pallet full of cardboard boxes on fire, Lakewood Fire Chief Mike D’Elia, Jr. said.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze within a matter of minutes, D’Elia said.
There was no one inside the warehouse at the time and no injuries were reported.
The chief said investigators indicated batteries in a Bluetooth device likely started the fire.
A sprinkler directly above the fire activated and kept the fire “at bay,” D’Elia said. The damage was contained to the boxes on one pallet.
He estimated that had the sprinklers not activated, about a quarter of the items in the warehouse would have been in flames by the time firefighters arrived.
“It did it’s job,” D’Elia said of the sprinkler system.
Crews are at 10816 Kings Rd. for a fire that was initially dispatched at 2:56 p.m.
Rescue officials say the fire was extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system before it was able to spread.
There are no reported injuries and this fire is under investigation.
This morning at Emerald Care-Midwest City a fire started above the bathroom for one of the resident rooms. The fire was caused by a faulting fan/lighting fixture which ignited just above the hard ceiling. The space above the ceiling was protected by an upright sprinkler head which contained the fire to a small area above the bathroom.
The sprinkler system was under repair before the fire fighters were leaving the site. (Shout out to Daniel Webster and Ryan Caldwell for helping the fire fighters, managers and building maintenance get the situation under control!).
The fire alarm correctly notified the authorities and activated audibles/visuals but did suffer some minor damage from water to the duct detector near the fire. (Another shout to John Deer for restoring the fire system to full service).
There was some water damage due to the fire department and building maintenance not knowing where the sprinkler shutoff valve was located although I did see a visible note posted in the riser room and on the riser itself for its location. Mostly standing water in rooms, corridor and a few ceilings in the rooms around the fire. (Took pictures to document and will post with report). The maintenance engineer is 2 weeks new to the site and Anthony LaGrange was already talking with him about training before this incident occurred and he will stay with it and get them trained on their life safety systems.
Because of the quick response by the fire fighters, remediation team, electrical, mechanical, facility employees and of course our very own amazing team, many residents were able to return comfortably to their rooms late today. This is an elderly nursing care facility and it was very important to get things normalized as fast as possible to relieve the occupants anxiety and fears. No patients were noted to be injured during the fire, building evacuation or clean up.
The fire was mostly contained to a fifth floor storage area at 280 Broadway, but was kept to a minimum by the building sprinkler system that a requirement in all commercial buildings over 40 feet high, including city-owned buildings.
No injuries were reported, though traffic on Broadway at Chambers Street was snarled for nearly an hour.
The fire went to an “all-hands” bringing in more than 50 firefighters on scene, who conducted a search throughout the building and were able to establish that the offices were safe to return. There were few workers in the building because of the Presidents Day holiday.
DOB officials did not respond as to how much damage the offices may have incurred.
The building, the former newspaper headquarters for the New York City Sun from 1833-1950, still has the original clock on the building, but hasn’t worked in years. The City Sun was resurrected from 2002 to 2008 by investor Conrad Black, but then shut it down. The Department of Buildings later established their headquarters in the building. The building was made a landmark in 1986.
At one point, firefighters were unable to remove a hose that was connected to a fire truck. Efforts to remove the hose resulted in the hydrant exploding from underneath, causing a geyser in front of the building. It was quickly controlled, though DEP would be called to repair and hydrant.
A security guard patrolling the area of Flagship Motorcars of Lynnfield on Broadway around 4 a.m. called 911 after noticing a glow coming from the front window of the building, according to Lynnfield Fire Chief Glenn Davis.
Firefighters responding to the scene found that a sprinkler system contained the flames to the vehicle but the building had been filled with smoke.
Crews dealt with freezing temperatures, which caused the parking lot to ice over.
One firefighter may have sustained a finger injury from falling on the ice but no one was transported to the hospital, Davis said.
Hours after the first fire broke out, a second vehicle parked in the lot outside the showroom started smoking and smoldering.
The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fires.
Investigators are looking into what started a fire at a restaurant on Mackinac Island.
Crews were called to the Village Inn just around 10:45 Wednesday night.
Firefighters evacuated several people on the second floor of the building.
Fire fighters were able to put out the fire on the first floor with help from the restaurant’s sprinkler system.
There is no word on what started it, but the Mackinac Island Fire Department says it is not considered suspicious.
Fire officials are investigating a blaze that broke out at our local outlet mall Tuesday.
The incident happened shortly after 9 p.m.
According to fire officials, heavy smoke was seen inside a store at the Outlet Shoppes at Laredo.
At the time, smoke was coming through some of the clothing items at the store when the sprinkler system went off.
Fire officials say no injuries were reported and there were no damages to other stores.