Hotel / Restaurant, Restaurant Bend, OR – Restaurant fire extinguished by sprinkler system September 14, 2022 viking210 An early Thursday morning fire at Broken Top Bottle Shop brought Bend Fire and Rescue to the scene. Fire crews arrived about 4am and Battalion Chief Trish Connolly says there was no fire showing when crews arrived, so they did a walk around of the building. She says alarms were going off and people in upstairs apartments were evacuating. Connolly says crews got inside the restaurant and found a small fire that had been put out by the sprinkler system. She says there is no doubt the sprinklers saved lives and the apartments. Connolly says the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion of rags that had been cleaned but still had residual oil on them.
