A Tuesday afternoon fire broke out in a Burton apartment and displaced a child and adult before being extinguished by the sprinkler system.

According to the Burton Fire District (BFD), responders were dispatched just past 4:00 p.m. to Magnolia Park Apartments on Laurel Bay Road.

Firefighters arrived on the scene to find a kitchen fire had activated the sprinkler system, which was flowing water from a single sprinkler head. The sprinkler had fully extinguished the fire by the time fire personnel arrived.

Officials stated that while the apartment sustained some water damage, the impact was extremely limited for this type of fire.

“A residential sprinkler head flows about 25 gallons of water a minute,” stated Burton Fire Captain Ethan Webb who was first to arrive, “but today it extinguished the fire immediately. Had the fire spread, not only would you have more fire damages, but our hose lines flow about 150 gallons of water a minute, so there would have been significantly more damages that could have also potentially impacted other residents in the complex. We can dry out your home, but we can’t unburn it.”