Category Archives: Apartment Building
Fire sprinklers save historic building (Barre, VT)
A historic building which houses several apartments had a fire begin in a fourth floor unit. The fire began when items that were cooking on the stove were left unattended. The sprinkler system, reacting to the heat from the fire, activated and eliminated the blaze.
There were no injuries reported from the incident.
Fire sprinklers quickly douse fire at high rise apartment building (Vineland, NJ)
Fire squelched by sprinkler system in multi-story apartment building (Baton Rouge, LA)
** Blog Editor’s Note – Please let us know what you think of the coverage by reporter Andrew Nomura and CBS 9News, which focused on water damage rather than the lives and property saved by the automatic fire sprinkler system **
Sprinklers douse apartment fire started by small child (Vancouver, WA)
An eight-year old child started a fire in the bedroom of an apartment on Monday evening while using a lighter. The unit’s fire sprinkler activated and put out the majority of the fire before fire crews arrived.
“Automatic fire sprinklers keep fires small,” Vancouver Fire Marshal Heidi Scarpelli said. “The (loss) potential was really great.”
Apartment fire extinguished by fire sprinkler system (Sneads Ferry, NC)
Sprinkler puts out fire at apartments that burned in 2007 (Madison, WI)
Six years after a blaze destroyed a Madison apartment building, officials say the sprinkler system at a new building on the same site prevented serious damage from a weekend fire. The fire started Saturday when a discarded cigarette ignited a Christmas tree on a balcony, authorities said. By the time firefighters arrived, however, an automatic sprinkler had already extinguished the fire, leaving the building with only cosmetic damage, officials said. That’s a far cry from July of 2007, when a fire started by a cigarette butt caused $3.5 million in damage, according to State Journal archives.
“This is a perfect example of how fire sprinkler systems limit damage and most importantly, save lives,” Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Bernadette Galvez said in a statement.
Apartment cooking fire eliminated by sprinkler system (Springfield, MO)
Sprinklers assist firefighters in apartment fire (San Luis Obispo, CA)
A fire which broke out in an apartment at around 3:40 a.m. on Monday, January 20, filled an apartment with smoke and activated the unit’s fire sprinkler system. Firefighters were able to eliminate the fire by 4:00 a.m.
“Without the sprinkler system, the fire could have gotten a lot bigger,” said acting Battalion Chief Mike King.
