Category Archives: Apartment Building

Apartment Building, Residential

Apartment saved from fire by sprinklers (Chapel Hill, NC)

Officials report that a fire in an unattended apartment unit the morning of February 28 is being blamed on the dryer vent hose. Even though the dryer was not being used at the time of the fire, it had recently been used. After the fire began, the fire sprinkler activated and eliminated the fire completely before fire crews arrived to the scene. No injuries were reported.

Apartment Building, Residential

Suspicious apartment fire put out by sprinkler system (North Bay, ON)

A flaming object that was thrown down the garbage chute of an apartment on Thursday night at about 10 p.m. The sprinkler system activated and put out the fire, and police report that thanks to the fire sprinkler, there was no damage to the building. This is the fourth time that a fire has started for similar reasons in this apartment building.

Apartment Building, Residential

Apartment fire extinguished by sprinkler system (Ashland, OR)

At about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, February 25, the Ashland Fire and Rescue responded to a call of a fire at an apartment building. Upon arrival, they discovered that the fire had been put out by the complex’s fire sprinkler system. The fire began near a blender in one of the apartment units; investigators believe that it was caused by an electrical short. 

“This was an eight-unit residential facility. We could have had a fire that damaged all eight units,” Ashland Fire Chief John Kams said. “It’s exactly why we’re trying to promote residential sprinklers.”

There were no injuries reported.

Apartment Building, Residential

Single sprinkler head controls apartment fire (Katy, TX)

*** FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED – NO MEDIA COVERAGE *** A three-story apartment building caught on fire on Monday afternoon after a candle was left unattended. When fire crews arrived to the apartment, they found that there was no fire showing from the outside of the building, and upon investigating the unit in which the fire began, discovered that the fire had been mostly extinguished by a single sprinkler head. There were no injuries reported.

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler helps save apartment building from fire (Knoxville, TN)

Firefighters responded to a fire at an apartment complex during the early hours of Saturday morning. After seeing flames outside of a sixth floor apartment unit, they came up to extinguish the blaze. They were met with smoke, with the fire sprinkler having put out the majority of the fire. No injuries were reported, and the fire’s cause remains under investigation.