Apartment Building, Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential, Residential High Rise Hibbing, MN – Single sprinkler contains early morning fire at senior high rise apartment building May 5, 2015 viking210 A fire at Hibbing’s Androy Building Sunday morning drew a full response from the Hibbing and neighboring fire departments. But when they arrived, they found the fire had already been contained by a single sprinkler head. The Androy Building houses senior high-rise apartments, an Elks Club banquet center and an orthodontics clinic. According to the Hibbing Fire Department, firefighters arrived shortly before 6 a.m. when an automatic fire alarm was triggered. The found smoke coming from a vent near the kitchen of the Elks Club and tenants starting to to evacuate the building. Inside, crews found smoke in the Elks side of the building but the fire down to a smolder. Crews put out the remaining smoldering material and ventilated the smoke from the banquet room. By 7:10 a.m., it was deemed safe enough to allow tenants back in. Hibbing Fire Marshal Bryan Fagerstrom determined the case was accidental — a steam table had been left on which overheated and ignited the wood buffet table. He stressed the importance of having a properly maintained sprinkler system. “The sprinkler system in this fire was serviced and maintained per code and did exactly as it should by containing the fire and keeping it from spreading,” he said in the release.
Apartment Building, Residential Wilmington, NC – Sprinkler system contains apartment fire to kitchen; No injuries May 4, 2015 viking210 Wilmington Fire Department crews responded to an apartment fire located at 106 N. Water St around 2:45 p.m. Saturday. Battalion Chief Chris Nelson said a sprinkler system located in the apartment controlled the fire, keeping it contained to the kitchen where the fire started, until firefighters arrived on scene. The occupant was home at the time, but no one was injured. A total of seven trucks responded as well as units from NHRMC EMS and Wilmington Police Department. Nelson said there was minimal fire damage to the apartment and some water damage to apartments below where the fire started.
Apartment Building, Residential St. Catharines, ON, Canada – Sprinklers activate during fire at 7-story apartment building April 30, 2015 viking210 Firefighters evacuated the seven-floor apartment building at 5 Louis Ave. Tuesday after a blaze broke out on the fifth floor. About 200 residents were forced from their homes for about six hours until the building was considered safe to re-enter. “There was a lot of smoke that migrated throughout the building — so it had to be ventilated,” Deputy Fire Chief Larry Jones said. “We had to make sure all the units were safe. “We went floor by floor with our air monitoring equipment and kept the fans going until we had zero readings.” The Salvation Army and Red Cross provided the residents with sandwiches and coffee. Two buses from the City of St. Catharines were used as shelter. The Humane Society also attended, to assist with the pets of the residents. Some tenants from the fifth floor will have to wait to re-occupy their units, Jones said. The Red Cross is helping them. “Once we are finished our investigation, cleanup will commence,” Jones said. “The cleanup will focus on getting the displaced tenants back first. I can’t imagine it will be too long. There was some water damage to the floors. We had to isolate part of the sprinkler system so that will have to be repaired. They will have to deodorize and clean the walls. The units — for the most part — are fine.
Apartment Building, Residential Richmond, VA – Cooking fire quickly doused by sprinklers at Shockoe Bottom apartment building April 29, 2015 viking210 The Atrium Lofts at Cold Storage, located at 500 North 18th Street, was evacuated around 2 a.m. after a small fire started in an apartment on the 5th floor, according to Richmond firefighters. As soon as the fire started, the sprinkler system kicked-in and put the fire out. Everyone was allowed back into their apartments by 5:30 a.m. No one was hurt in the fire and no serious damage was reported.
Apartment Building, Residential Salina, KS – Loft apartment fire brought under control with help from sprinkler system April 22, 2015 viking210 Firefighters had a fire that started in a loft apartment above Laura’s Antiques in the 100 block of South Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Salina under control within about 40 minutes Tuesday night, said Salina Fire Marshal Roger Williams. Williams said the fire was initially seen in a patio area of the loft apartment above Laura’s Antiques, 109 S. Santa Fe. He said it might have spread into the loft apartment above That 1 Bar, 111 S. Santa Fe, which is protected by an automatic sprinkler system. “It (the sprinkler system) did activate, and that definitely helped our operation,” Williams said. Williams said there were no people in either loft apartment, and a small number of people in the bar were safely evacuated. There was smoke visible at the scene, but no flames. The loft above Laura’s Antiques was being renovated. During that work in early March, some plaster was removed from what had been the exterior wall of 111 S. Santa Fe to reveal a sign painted on the wall from Salina’s earliest days. The black-and-white sign was for “G. Sauer, Boots and Shoes,” a company that opened in 1870 and had closed by 1885. About 20,000 pounds of plaster was removed from the walls during renovation.
Apartment Building, Residential Phoenix, AZ – Sprinkler system helps control fire in three-story apartment building April 20, 2015 viking210 An apartment fire in North Phoenix left six residents displaced on Saturday morning, according to Captain Aaron Ernsberger with the Phoenix Fire Department. The fire happened on the third floor of a three-story apartment building near Tatum Boulevard and Union Hills Drive. Crews from the Phoenix Fire Department quickly got the fire under control, and immediately began trying to stop the water flow to the sprinkler system from damaging the lower units. The Phoenix Fire Department is assisting the residents on all three floors that were displaced because of the water damage. The cause of the fire is unknown and is under investigation.
Apartment Building, Residential New Braunfels, TX – Sprinklers assist in extinguishing apartment blaze; No injuries reported April 20, 2015 viking210 New Braunfels Firefighters were called out to the Ranch at the Guadalupe at 1355 Ranch Parkway for a fire last Tuesday afternoon. Crews were dispatched at 3pm. for a fire alarm. When they arrived on scene, officials say there was smoke showing from a 3rd floor apartment, but that a fire-sprinkler system had activated. A microwave is being blamed for starting the fire in the kitchen. Fire crews finished extinguishing the blaze, and called the fire under control at 3:21pm..
Apartment Building, Residential New Haven, CT – Sprinklers contain ‘potential disaster’ fire at apartment building April 17, 2015 viking210 Sprinklers likely kept a kitchen fire in a second-floor unit from spreading throughout the Bella Vista Apartments Thursday morning. Several fire trucks converged shortly before 9:30 a.m. on 315 Eastern St., Building D. The fire was contained in the kitchen by the sprinklers. Crews arrived and checked on whether the fire had spread, and left a short time later. “It turned a potential disaster into a minor incident,” Battalion Chief William Gould said at the scene. Gould said no injuries were reported.
Apartment Building, Residential Roanoke, VA – Sprinkler helps contain afternoon apartment fire April 16, 2015 viking210 One person has been displaced following an apartment building fire Wednesday afternoon in Roanoke County. Firefighters arrived around 1:30 p.m. to a six-story apartment building in the 5300 block of Hawthorne Road in Hollins, said Fire & Rescue spokeswoman Jennifer Conley Sexton. An overhead sprinkler system extinguished most of the fire in a kitchen on the fourth floor before crews from North County, Hollins and Roanoke arrived, Sexton said.
Apartment Building, Residential Ashburn, VA – Overnight apartment fire on balcony held in check by sprinkler system April 13, 2015 viking210 A fire injured one today and caused $500 in damage after improperly discarded smoking materials started the blaze about 2:20 a.m. at an Ashburn apartment in the 44000 block of Whitford Square. Loudoun Fire and Rescue officials said the blaze could have been worse – a sprinkler system on the apartment’s third-floor balcony kept the flames in check. Fire and rescue units from Ashburn, Moorefield, Sterling, Kincora and Fairfax County responded to the call and ensured the remaining fire was out. They also checked the apartment and neighboring homes to make sure there was no remaining fire. One adult resident at the apartment suffered a minor burn injury and was taken to a local hospital for further treatment. There were no public safety personnel injured. Loudoun Fire and Rescue officials say today’s blaze was one of many firefighters have responded to due to improperly discarded smoking materials. Smoking, they said, is the No.1 cause of home fire deaths in the United States.
An overhead sprinkler system extinguished most of the fire in a kitchen on the fourth floor before crews from North County, Hollins and Roanoke arrived, Sexton said.