Category Archives: Apartment Building
Sprinklers credited with minimizing fire damage and safety of residents in apartment fire (Cookeville, TN)
Apartment fire contained by single sprinkler head (Manassas, KS)
Small fire suppressed by sprinklers at apartment complex (Spartanburg, SC)
A minor fire at an apartment complex was suppressed by the automatic sprinkler system. According to the fire chief, who said the sprinkler system did exactly what it was supposed to do. ***Blog Editor’s Note – Please let us know what you think of the coverage by the FOX Carolina and journalist Joseph Pereira, who focused on water damage rather than the lives and property saved by the automatic fire sprinkler system. ***
Sprinkler system puts out fire at off-campus apartment building (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA)
Another apartment fire controlled by automatic sprinkler system (Hagerstown, MD)
Apartment fire halted by fire sprinkler system (Oro Valley, AZ)
A fire that began on the third floor of an apartment building Wednesday night was brought under control by the unit’s fire sprinkler before fire crews arrived.
Golder Ranch Fire Chief Randy Karrer said, “It is incidents such as these that highlight the importance of sprinkler systems in multi-family dwellings. Without them, the fire could have quickly spread to other units, causing greater damage and an increased threat to lives of the residents.”
Weekend apartment fire controlled by automatic fire sprinklers (Lebanon, NH)
Sprinkler activates to control apartment hallway fire (Ypsilanti, MI)
*** Blog Editor’s Note: Tell us what you think of the coverage by annarbor.com and the comments from the Ypsilanti FD. Of course, the sprinkler didn’t “cause” the damage, but rather it saved the apartment from experiencing a much larger fire, where the damage would have been much worse, and could have possibly caused injury or loss of life. ***