Firefighters responded to a call around 10:16 a.m. Friday at Midwest Fiber Recycling located at 4000 E. Steelton Ave. According to Terre Haute Fire Chief Bill Berry, the trailer was a total loss.
The fire caused a sprinkler system inside the building to go off; however, Berry said the recycling center was not damaged. No was hurt during the incident.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Roanoke Fire-EMS extinguished a fire in the 3400 block of Shenandoah Avenue NW Saturday night.
About 6:30 p.m., crews were called to respond to a fire alarm, and found smoke coming from a business building.
Firefighters say sprinklers helped lessen impacts from the fire, and put out part of the fire untouchable by the sprinkler system in place.
No injuries have been reported. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
Fresno firefighters responded to a fire outside an auto repair shop Tuesday morning.
The fire was near Van Ness and Los Angeles in downtown Fresno.
The Battalion Chief said the fire caused damage mostly to the outside of the building. It also burned a transformer. He says the fire did get inside the building , but an overhead sprinkler contained the flames and damage was limited to a corner. He suspects the fire was caused by a homeless encampment.
The fire started shortly after 8 a.m. The escalator fire in the pedestrian tunnel between concourses B and C in Terminal 1 was caused by an electrical issue.
Sprinklers went off, and the tunnel was closed and electricity turned off. Power was restored around 9:30 a.m.
People are being shuttled around the tunnel, CFD said.
No injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Officials with United Airlines reported that some flights were delayed due to the incident, but regular operations had resumed by noon.
A fire leaving a road in Downtown Fargo partially closed down Tuesday afternoon.
Fargo Firefighters responded to a blaze at Minnkota Recycling at around 12:30 p.m. Officials say the fire began inside a cardboard compactor, then spread to cardboard material outside.
The building’s sprinkler system kept the fire contained to that area, but as of 2 p.m. crews were still working to put it out.
4th Avenue North was closed down at 10th Street North due to the flames and crews working the scene.
No injuries have been reported.
Firefighters responded to a fire in the back of a unit at 1950 Harvey Avenue at 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, activating a sprinkler as they arrived.
The sprinklers were able to contain the fire to the rear office area but did cause some water damage.
Three fire engines, a rescue unit and a command vehicle, as well as the RCMP, responded to the fire.
The Kelowna Fire Department has deemed the fire “accidental in nature,” but did not provide any further details as to what sparked the blaze.
Bar Harbor Fire Department Chief Matthew Bartlett said on Wednesday that the department responded as they normally do for a fire alarm call but soon realized there was an actual fire. “As our crew entered the building, they found the fire burning in the location. Our crew radioed back saying they had found fire in the building with sprinkler flow,” which, said Bartlett, prompted a call for additional resources.
That call brought the Mount Desert Fire Department, Southwest Harbor Fire Department, Ellsworth Fire Department and Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service to the scene. Bartlett said the Trenton Fire Department and responders from the Somesville Fire Station provided standby coverage.
“Mutual aid departments were not needed, so they were quickly released,” he said.
Though many departments were called, only about five or six responders entered the building.
“Our crew had to go in and put out the fire that the sprinkler system couldn’t fully extinguish,” said Bartlett, adding that it was primarily the contents of a shelving unit that caught on fire.
Around 10:30 p.m., the flames were doused and the departments cleared the scene.
All the research mice and employees were found to be safe.
The lab’s Executive Vice President and COO Catherine “Katy” Longley said that the lab community is grateful to the local fire departments and emergency personnel for their swift response. “We are thankful that all employees are safe,” she said.
On behalf of the fire department, Chief Bartlett said he was also appreciative of what the lab’s crew did Tuesday night to help the emergency personnel. “It was a team effort between The Jackson Lab and ourselves. Their staff did a great job in helping us get to where we needed to be,” said Bartlett.
“We got a fire alarm, the sprinkler system activated, we went down to investigate, found a little fire burning and luckily we were able to get in there and put the remaining fire out. The system worked as it was just designed to do.”
The sprinkler system put out a fire at a compost facility on Riverview Road in Akron Sunday.
The facility’s alarm company contacted the Akron Fire Department shortly before 2 p.m., according to an Akron Fire media release. The alarm company said they had talked to someone at the plant and that they could not turn the alarm off.
The fire department sent an engine and found a room in a building full of smoke, the release said. The fire had been extinguished by an overhead sprinkler.
No one was injured.
According to Hutchinson Fire Chief Mike Schumann, a fire broke out in one of the units at the city-owned Enterprise Center commercial business complex at 1164 Benjamin Ave. S.E. A utility cart with flammable paint supplies on it ignited in the building at approximately 6:45 p.m.
The fire activated a sprinkler head, which contained the fire until firefighters arrived and were able to extinguish and set up ventilation to clear out the smoke. Firefighters also assisted with removing water on the floor and salvaging other items.
Schumann said it was a great example of how valuable sprinkler systems can be.
“If it were not for the early warning and activation of the automatic fire sprinkler system, this could easily have been a multimillion dollar loss with a catastrophic impact on the operation of multiple local businesses.”
