Crews were called to the store around 11:30 p.m. and discovered a fire in the loading dock area, which was being kept in check by the sprinkler system. Firefighters extinguished the fire and assisted in closing off the sprinklers once it was out.
Firefighters said all employees were able to exit the building and no one was injured.
Crews responded to the scene following a report of smoke coming from a residence in the 2600 block of Deerfield Lane. Units from multiple jurisdictions, including North Beach, Dunkirk, Huntingtown, Prince Frederick, and Anne Arundel County, responded to the scene.
Units first to arrive reported visible smoke from a two-story townhouse.
Firefighters quickly located a kitchen fire that had already been contained by a single sprinkler head from the home’s automatic fire suppression system. Crews confirmed the fire was extinguished, shut off the sprinkler system, and ventilated the residual smoke.
Officials said the fire damage was limited to the kitchen. No injuries were reported, and the occupants were not home at the time of the fire.
Superintendent Brian Bailey said the student will be held accountable for their actions.
The school’s sprinkler system put out the fire, but smoke spread throughout the building. There was also water damage on the first and second floors. The school was evacuated, and the building was closed on Wednesday for cleaning by a fire remediation team.
The bathroom where the fire occurred and the bathroom immediately below it will remain closed as cleaning and repairs continue.
“We are heartbroken,” the proprietors wrote on social media Wednesday.
The shop is now closed, and sales on delivery platforms have been halted “until we can assess the damage and begin to rebuild,” they wrote.
Founded in 2014 by siblings Aubry Walch and Kale Walch, the Herbivorous Butcher began as a Minneapolis Farmers Market experiment and in 2016 turned into a hit brick-and-mortar store in northeast Minneapolis that ships nationwide. At the heart of their operation are housemade proteins that stand in for animal products, such as vegan Korean BBQ ribs, chorizo sausage and Brie cheese.
According to a release from the Minneapolis Fire Department, fire crews were dispatched to 507 1st Av. NE. at approximately 9:10 p.m and forced entry to find smoke on the first floor and a fire above the kitchen area, between the first and second floors. The sprinkler system extinguished most of the fire, but the crew had to cut a hole between the floors to put out remaining embers. No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
“The fire department had to flood the space, and everything is now a mess,” the Herbivorous Butcher team wrote. “We’re still taking it all in — and figuring out what comes next.”
The Walches have set up a GoFundMe to help with cleanup, repair and restoring operations.
Fortunately, the equipment for making vegan cheese and for steaming and smoking the vegan meats seem to have survived unscathed, said Kale Walch, who was feeling “optimistic” the day after the fire.
“A small business is an interesting series of bumps along a rustic back road, and it’s just another change to the equation,” he said. “We survived a pandemic. We’ve done worse, and we’ll do it again. We can handle it.”
The duo also own J. Selby’s vegan restaurant in St. Paul. They’ll move some food production to that location, at 169 N. Victoria St.
“I’m gonna try to do as much as I can out of there,” Kale Walch said. “I’ll probably be doing even more.”
When fire crews arrived, they encountered smoke in a hallway and an office area.
The automatic sprinkler system was activated and effectively extinguished the fire, preventing the fire from spreading and minimizing damage. Fire crews removed smoke from the building and assisted with water cleanup. The cause of the fire is under investigation, and there were no injuries to occupants or fire personnel on the scene.
The Grand Forks Fire Department responded with five engines, one truck, one command vehicle, and 17 personnel.
The fire department was assisted by the Grand Forks Police Department and Altru Ambulance.
The Grand Forks Fire Department would like to remind all residents of the effectiveness of smoke detectors and sprinkler systems in preventing or minimizing fire damage.
The home on Cedar Island Drive was unoccupied when the fire broke out, said Kevin Batzel, chief of the Brick Township Bureau of Fire Safety. There were no injuries reported.
The fire was reported about 6:30 a.m. and was confirmed by Officer Joseph Sansone, who then called in the remainder of Brick’s fire companies to fight the fire.
The fire started on the lower part of the exterior of the home, according to the preliminary investigation, Batzel said. It traveled up the house and broke through into the interior on the upper floors of the house.
He said the sprinklers had been installed as part of recent reconstruction, and sprinkler heads in bedrooms on the second and third floors activated, “which held the fire in check until the fire department arrived.”
The sprinklers slowed the spread of the fire throughout the home and “gave firefighters valuable time to extinguish the fire and minimize damage,” Batzel said.
“Residential fire sprinklers are required in some larger constructed or renovated homes such as this one,” he said, adding that they provide another layer of protection to go along with smoke detectors.
Assistant Fire Marshal Robert Kurilla is investigating.
Batzel praised Brick Township’s firefighters and thanked all of the mutual aid partners for their assistance with the fire.
Classes were cancelled Thursday after a fire broke out before the school day started, the Pacific Rim School District said. The school has about 1,300 students in Grades 8 through 12.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Staff and the few students on site escaped the building without incident and the situation was quickly brought under control, the district said.
The school’s water-suppression system activated immediately and the Port Alberni Fire Department was at the scene within minutes.
Fire Chief Mike Owens said the fire appears to have started in a classroom space adjacent to the school’s auto mechanics area.
Owens said the fire damage was confined to the classroom of origin.
“A lot of the fire was knocked down by the sprinkler system, so there was quite a bit of water involved,” he said.
He said the school is a concrete structure, so it handled the water better than a wooden building would have.
Fire investigators remained on scene through Thursday morning.
The building was closed for the remainder of the day to allow for cleanup.
Port Alberni firefighters received assistance at the fire from the Sproat Lake Volunteer Fire Department, the Beaver Creek Volunteer Fire Department and the Cherry Creek Fire Department.
The school district said it was “deeply grateful” for the quick response from the fire departments, “as well as the quick actions of our staff in ensuring everyone’s safety and minimizing damage.”
Property managers arrived after getting an alert from the building’s alarm and sprinkler system. They found that a towel had caught fire in the bathroom. No one was home at the time, and according to the Seattle Fire Department, it wasn’t clear whether the fire was set intentionally.
No one was displaced, and damage was limited to some smoke staining in the bathroom and minor water intrusion in the unit below.
Upon arrival, fire crews advanced an attack line while simultaneously executing a room-to-room search of the building to evacuate the residents. Many occupants had already been evacuated by the facility’s staff before SFD arrived. Firefighters and Jackson County EMS helped evacuate one bedridden patient.
Seymour Community Schools Transportation Director Tim Fosbrink provided a bus to transport the residents to a hotel where they were checked into rooms.
Upon investigation, the fire was contained to one room at the facility, and the point of origin was a wall-mounted heat/AC unit that experienced an electrical/mechanical failure. The unit was taken to the Seymour Fire Department for further examination.
The facility’s sprinkler system was activated, and the centralized alarm performed appropriately. There were no reports of injuries, and all residents were accounted for.
Fire officials say a Newburgh business fire was controlled by their sprinkler system.
They say it broke out on Monday night around 9:45 p.m. on Prospect Drive.
Officials say the business is InTerraChem LLC.
Ohio Township Fire officials say they were on scene until just after midnight to overhaul and ventilate the building.
They say the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Officials say they were helped by the Boonville Fire Department, Newburgh Volunteer Fire Department, Chandler Volunteer Fire Department, and Warrick County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch.