Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Carthage, NC – Sprinklers help confine laundry fire at nursing home January 22, 2016 viking210 The Aberdeen Times reported that a fire broke out in the laundry room at Tara Plantation at 820 South McNeill Street in Carthage around 9:15 p.m. The fire forced the facility to evacuate. Once the fire was put out, crews helped with returning the resident back inside. Carthage Fire Chief Brian Tyner told The Aberdeen Times that the sprinkler system worked, helping to confine the fire to the laundry room. The newspaper reported that two residents were taken to FirstHealth Hospital in Pinehurst with non-life threatening injuries. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
