Apartment Building, Residential Charleston, SC – Fire sprinkler controls downtown apartment fire November 23, 2014 viking210 The Charleston Fire Department responded to an automatic fire alarm on Market Street this morning at 3:42 a.m. Fire officials say there was smoke coming from the Canterbury East building from the 4th floor hallway. Fire department officials say the couch fire was contained by the fire sprinkler head in the resident’s apartment building. The damage from the fire was limited to the sofa and the resident was taken to safety. The specific cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Apartment Building, Residential Fire marshal credits sprinkler with averting disaster in overnight apartment fire (Grafton, IL) November 17, 2014 viking210 There were no news trucks outside 100 Forest Lane at 3 a.m. Thursday, no reports of deaths from a terrible fire, no flames filling the darkened skies. Oh, there was a fire at an apartment at the 10-unit building and there was some damage to an apartment, but by the time firefighters arrived, the blaze was out because a single sprinkler head had been activated and doused the flames. No one was hurt.
Apartment Building, Residential Apartment fire extinguished by sprinkler system (Charleston, MD) November 15, 2014 viking210 A fire broke out at an apartment in the Alta Chesapeake Ridge community Saturday night. The Maryland State Fire Marshal Office is investigating the blaze, which occurred in a ground floor unit in building 206 and was reported around 7:50 p.m. on Saturday. Witnesses at the scene reported seeing flames shooting from an exterior wall. The residential sprinkler system extinguished the blaze by the time firefighters arrived, according to officials.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system possibly saved resident’s life in apartment fire, according to fire department (Mankato, MN) November 8, 2014 viking210 Firefighters reported a sprinkler system in the complex in the 100 block of Glenwood Avenue possibly saved a resident’s life and greatly reduced damage to the apartment, said Don Lehne of the Mankato Department of Public Safety. Two sprinklers kept the fire from spreading to other apartments.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinklers control fire, limit damage in fire at multi-use complex (Pawtucket, RI) November 8, 2014 viking210 A small fire in a third-floor space of the Hope Artiste Village complex was put out by firefighters Wednesday night. Battalion Chief Joseph Murray said that the fire started on a wood floor that was being renovated, triggering the sprinkler system. Murray said the sprinklers contained the fire to about a 15-foot section of floor. The floor was unoccupied and there were no injuries, said Murray. The complex houses shops, workshop studio apartments and other businesses in a 19th-century mill complex.
Apartment Building, Residential Apartment balcony fire extinguished by sprinklers (Columbus, IN) November 5, 2014 viking210 A second-floor balcony at Riverstone Apartments was damaged after discarded smoking materials in a plastic container ignited a wooden flower box, Columbus firefighters said. The fire was reported at about 5 p.m., fire investigator Matt Noblitt said. The apartment’s sprinkler system immediately kicked on, dousing the fire and preventing damage, Noblitt said. The fire was out when firefighters arrived.
Apartment Building, Residential Middle of night apartment fire extinguished by single sprinkler (Savannah, GA) November 4, 2014 viking210 Savannah firefighters are investigating a blaze downtown which forced several people out of their apartments overnight. About 1:30 a.m. Thursday, firefighters were called to the apartment house in the 400 block of West Congress Street. The building also houses B&B Billiards. When firefighters arrived, they found smoke inside the apartment house and a sprinkler had been set off in one of the rooms. The water from the sprinkler had put out a fire on the third floor.
Apartment Building, Residential Early morning apartment fire put out by sprinkler system (Sioux Falls, SD) November 3, 2014 viking210 Sioux Falls Fire Rescue responded to a structure fire at this three-story business and apartment building in downtown Sioux Falls around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters said the fire started in a kitchen on the third floor apartment, but the sprinkler system quickly kicked in and put out the fire, containing the small amount of damage to the one apartment kitchen. All of the tenants were able to safely exit the building.
Apartment Building, Residential Single sprinkler saves blind man in high-rise apartment fire (St. Paul, MN) November 2, 2014 viking210 A stove top fire, which consumed the cabinet and crawled up the wall of a blind St. Paul man’s apartment, was extinguished by a single fire sprinkler. The man said he had accidentally left a plastic tray touching the burner and left the room while he was cooking a late lunch, according to a St. Paul Fire Department release. Firefighters responded to the blaze shortly after 3 p.m. on Oct. 30. The fire was in a high-rise apartment building at 1300 Wilson Avenue, owned by St. Paul’s Public Housing Agency. The fire department said the incident demonstrates the extreme effectiveness of sprinklers in putting out fires.
Apartment Building, Residential Fire at high-rise apartment building put out by sprinkler system (Roanoke, VA) October 30, 2014 viking210 Some residents in Melrose Towers in Roanoke are displaced after their homes sustained water damage in a small fire Monday afternoon. No one was hurt. The fire was reported at 1:50 p.m. Monday at Melrose Towers, which is in the 3000 block of Melrose Avenue. The fire started in an eighth-floor apartment. The fire was put out by the sprinkler system in the building.
