Apartment Building, Residential Beaufort, SC – Fire department credits sprinkler system in controlling apartment kitchen fire January 26, 2018 viking210 Burton Fire District and Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department responded to a fire at Ashton Pointe Apartments in Port Royal Friday evening, according to a Burton Fire District release. The fire broke out at around 6:30 p.m. Friday in an apartment kitchen, the release said. Firefighters arriving on the scene found smoke emanating from a second floor apartment in the complex, which is located on Robert Smalls Parkway. “I was met outside the affected apartment by a female resident and with her child” said Lt. Josh Waskow of the Beaufort/Port Eoyal Fire Department in a Department release, which also said he was the first fire officer on the scene. “She told me her stove top, cabinets and kitchen were on fire and when we entered her apartment we found the fire completely contained and almost fully extinguished through the activation of two residential sprinkler heads.” Firefighters were able to finish extinguishing the fire on their arrival, the Burton release said, limiting fire damage to the stove and cabinets.
