Apartment Building, Residential Charleston, SC – Fire department credits single sprinkler for extinguishing apartment fire December 1, 2014 viking210 Fire officials have been able to determine a single fire sprinkler head was able to put out a fire in a apartment complex in downtown Charleston. Crews with the Charleston and North Charleston Fire Departments, Charleston County EMS, and Charleston Police Department were called out to a possible structure fire at North Central Apartments at 1054 King Street. Arriving units were advised of a possible kitchen fire in a second floor apartment. Fire officials on scene say the fire sprinkler located in the kitchen of the apartment had extinguished a fire on the stove. “The fire sprinkler system was again a very important tool in this incident,” said Fire Chief Karen Brack. “Without this fire sprinkler system the fire may have grown in size injuring the resident and other tenants of the building. The fire sprinkler system extinguished the fire and ensured the life safety of all occupants in the building.” Fire damage was limited to the stove area with minimal smoke and heat damage. Officials say the resident received no injuries due to the fire. Officials say this is the second incident in two weeks that a fire sprinkler system has extinguised a growing fire in a multi-tenant occupancy in the City of Charleston.
Apartment Building, Residential Salisbury, MD – Laundry fire in apartment complex doused by sprinkler system November 30, 2014 viking210 A clothes dryer was blamed for an early Saturday fire that damaged an apartment unit at Riverside Court and displaced the occupant, the Salisbury Fire Department has reported. A sprinkler system kicked on, controlling the blaze until a dozen firefighters arrived, said Salisbury Assistant Chief Bryan Records. No one was reported injured, and six other apartment units in the immediate vicinity were not condemned, he said. The fire was confined to a laundry area inside a unit at 720 A Riverside Road.
Apartment Building, Residential West Lafayette, IN – Sprinkler system activates to control overnight fire at Purdue University off-campus apartment building November 26, 2014 viking210 West Lafayette Fire Chief Tim Heath said the fire broke out above a trash receptacle on the third floor. The heat from the fire caused one sprinkler head to start spraying. Fuse Apartment management said the damage to the apartments is minimal and will be repaired as students are out this week for Thanksgiving break.
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.
