A news release from the Oswego Fire Protection District says firefighters responded to the building at around 8:30. The fire was in a boiler room on the theater’s second floor. People in the theater were evacuated and the building’s sprinkler system was activated.
One theater employee was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. No one else was hurt.
The fire protection district says the cause of the fire was due to an issue with a faulty water heater.
Police credit a working sprinkler system with stopping a small fire that started in a Lamborghini from getting much larger and spreading to other cars in the facility, including the one parked right next to it, a 1954 “mint” condition Cadillac.
The alarm came in on Saturday at around noon for firefighters to respond to Clam Town Classics on Old Right Road.
“On arrival, they found heavy smoke coming from a unit housing a number of classic cars,” according to a post from Ipswich Public Safety.
“The source of the smoke was a 1972 Lamborghini, where a fire had started under the hood,” according to investigators. “Heat from the blaze had activated three sprinkler heads above the car, containing the fire to its point of origin.”
Chief Paul Parisi credited crews with “quick and decisive work” and said the sprinkler system prevented what could have been a massive and very costly fire. The mint-condition Cadillac was not damaged.
“Usually you only have one or two sprinkler heads activated. The fact that three sprinkler heads went off tells you just how much heat there was, yet the fire was contained only to the engine compartment,” Chief Parisi said. “The sprinkler system did just what it’s designed to do. Without it, the property loss would have been much more significant.”
The chief said the sprinklers saved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property.
“As a business owner watching the bottom line, I didn’t care too much for sprinklers.” said the owner of Clam Town Classics, George Delaney. “Now I’ve done a 180. After seeing the difference they make, I’m a big fan.”
Draper Fire Department officials said crews responded to a tripped fire alarm at the water park just after 2 a.m. Upon arrival, they observed light smoke and found that the fire was primarily contained to the attic of the building.
Fortunately, the emergency sprinkler system had been activated, which helped to suppress the flames in the lower part of the building.
“Crews did a really good job knocking it down,” said Deputy Chief Bart Vawdrey. “They did have to cut an access hole through the top to get to it just to clear it out, and then they pulled the ceiling from below.”
The cause remains under investigation, but Draper Fire said that it doesn’t appear to be suspicious. While no official estimate has been made, crews on scene speculate that the cost of the damage to the building could be anywhere between $75,000 to $100,000.
In a post on Facebook, Cowabunga Bay said the fire damaged their phone lines, and the water park would remain closed as they survey the damage.
“We will be temporarily closed until we can assure that all of our facilities are safe for our employees and our guests,” the statement read in part. “We apologize for any inconvenience, be assured that we will be working hard to get back open so you can enjoy the best summer ever.”
The sprinkler system activated controlling the fire, according to information from the Frisco Fire Department’s Facebook page. Crews were able to quickly finish suppressing the fire. Fire damage was limited to a small area. There were no injuries and the fire is currently under investigation.
These firefighters saved the day in more ways than one.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue responded to a report of a fire at a hair salon in South Florida on Friday.
The building had to be evacuated after a dryer caught fire, setting off the fire alarm and sprinkler system.
But for one client in the hair salon, time was of the essence, firefighters said.
“She had chemicals in her hair that had to be washed out on time,” the fire department wrote.
Once firefighters determined that the situation was under control, they ran a hose from the water in their fire engine to make sure the hairstylist could properly rinse her client’s hair.
“This is a first! What you have to do when the building catches on fire and clients have color in their hair,” one woman from the salon can be heard saying in the video on the agency’s Facebook page. “Thank you, Palm Beach County Fire Department!”
Firefighters said the building’s sprinkler system put out the dryer fire, and no one was injured.
Macon-Bibb fire crews responded to a blaze at a South Macon business on Monday.
Fire Chief Shane Edwards says it happened at Down River Load Solutions on Joe Tamplin Blvd.
Firefighters were dispatched around 10:40 a.m.
The first units to get to the scene were told that a machine had caught fire but the building’s sprinkler system extinguished most of it.
Firefighters executed fireground operations and no injuries were reported. The business took minimal damage.
“The building had a sprinkler system so it activated and kept the fire to the vehicle. We only had minor heat damage to two adjacent vehicles and to the structural members above it but it was minimal due to the sprinkler system activating,” said Greg Schacht, Augusta County Fire Chief. No word yet on what caused the fire.
The Auburn Fire Department responded to a call made by the Auburn Police Department at 11:59 p.m. Monday for a fire at Trombley’s Automotive Services at 10 E. Garden St., AFD Chief Mark Fritz said.
Firefighters encountered an exterior blaze on the east side of the building and had it extinguished within roughly an hour, Fritz said.
The fire appeared to have started in a wooden enclosure outside the building that was used to store tires. Investigators were still working to determine how it started as of Tuesday afternoon.
Fritz said the fire did not cause any structural damage to the building. One reason for that was the building’s sprinkler system, which has sprinkler heads at every window.
“That operated as it should and kept the fire from going into the building,” Fritz said.
The chief said there were no reports of injuries.
Because the fire damage was limited, Trombley’s was open for business as usual on Tuesday morning.
An electrical machine caught fire early Monday morning at Sensata Technologies on Pleasant Street.
The sprinkler system in the building at 533 Pleasant St., contained the fire but smoke filled the third floor, where the machine is located, Deputy Fire Chief Tim Birch said Tuesday.
No injuries were reported.
Investigators estimated the fire, which was reported about 12:15 a.m. Monday, caused between $75,000 and $100,000 damage.
The machine was not operating at the time but was plugged into an electrical socket, Birch said.
Firefighters spent about three hours at the scene investigating and clearing smoke from the building.
The exact cause was undetermined but it appeared to be an accident, Birch said.
