Government/Military, Other-Government/Military Redmond, WA – Sprinkler douses fire at teen center February 13, 2015 viking210 The Old Fire House Teen Center (OFH) in Redmond is closed today and Saturday due to a small fire that occurred in the building’s media lab early Thursday morning. The fire was limited to a mixing board in the room and was contained by the sprinkler system. Rana Shmait, program coordinator for the OFH, said the center will be closed just for clean up and there are no safety concerns.
Government/Military, Other-Government/Military Baltimore, MD – Fire at Maryland State Police data center contained by sprinklers December 27, 2014 viking210 State troopers in barracks across Maryland were left without access to central crime databases on Friday morning temporarily after a small fire in a generator room at Maryland State Police headquarters caused a power outage and knocked the data center offline. When the fire occurred, a sprinkler system turned on, the main generator stopped functioning and power was cut off, Russo said. The data center computers are housed in a separate building from the generators, and were not damaged, she said. No foul play was expected. Individual barracks did not lose power and retained access to their own computer systems, said Elena Russo, a police spokeswoman. The state police website was not accessible for several hours. Power had been restored as of Friday afternoon.
Government/Military, Other-Government/Military Sprinkler system contains truck fire at City of Dayton garage (Dayton, OH) October 12, 2014 viking210 Dayton crews were dispatched just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The sprinkler system in the City of Dayton garage at the public works facility worked as designed in containing the vehicle fire to the one heavy-duty truck, Dayton Fire Chief and Director Jeffrey Payne said. The sprinkler system had knocked out the flames by the time firefighters arrived, he said. An investigator was called to the scene as a matter of standard department protocol, as Payne said it appears no one was in the building when the fire erupted under the truck’s hood.
Government/Military, Other-Government/Military Fire at MSP international airport controlled by single sprinkler (Minneapolis, MN) October 7, 2014 viking210 A small fire in a break room at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport set off smoke detectors and a sprinkler above Gate G-1, causing some minor disruption before operations returned to normal. “It was a small stove fire in a storage and break area,” MSP spokesman Patrick Hogan said Monday. The fire was in an employee-only area, one floor above the public concourse used by passengers.
Government/Military, Other-Government/Military, Residential Sprinkler system contains fire at probation office (Lompoc, CA) September 6, 2013 viking210 Fire crews responded in less than a minute in response to a late night fire at a probation office on September 5. They arrived to find the fire in the office contained by it’s fire sprinkler system; the crew extinguished the remaining flames. The building was unoccupied when the fire began, and the fire is being deemed as suspicious.
Government/Military, Other-Government/Military Sprinklers control fire in at airport (Orlando, FL) August 8, 2013 viking210 A fire broke out in the baggage area of Orlando International Airport on August 4. The cause of the origin of the fire is still under investigation, but the fire, which began by curbside check-in and reached further down the baggage belt, was suppressed by fire sprinklers and firefighters. No one was injured during the incident.
Government/Military, Other-Government/Military Sprinkler system contains fire at Royal Canadian Mint (Ottawa, ON) November 9, 2012 viking210 There are no injuries and no burned money after a fire at the Royal Canadian Mint’s facility in Winnipeg. Spokesperson Christine Aquino says employees were evacuated safely and production resumed within a few hours. The Winnipeg fire department says the fire was caused by overheated electrical equipment, and was contained by the building’s sprinkler system.
Government/Military, Other-Government/Military Fire Controlled by Single Spinkler (Ocala, FL) January 6, 2012 viking210 Heat lamp inside snake cage causes small fire at state park. Fire controlled by single sprinkler.
