Category Archives: Apartment Building

Apartment Building, Residential

Fire sprinklers prove effectiveness in apartment complex fire (Vancouver, WA)

Firefighters say a sprinkler system saved an apartment complex from what could have been an overnight fire.
They arrived and found a plastic box and a cardboard box were left on a stove with a lit burner, said Kevin Stromberg, spokesman for the Vancouver Fire Department. The boxes caught fire and activated the sprinkler system. The residents were not home at the time.  The fire could have easily affected multiple families, especially early in the morning, he said.

Apartment Building, Residential

Cat survives apartment fire thanks to fire sprinkler system (Portland, OR)

Firefighters who responded to a southeast Portland apartment fire could hear screaming inside and see smoke seeping from under the door. So they kicked in the door and found — a cat.

Fire spokesman Ron Rouse says the cat — named Dude — was fine after the firefighters took him outside Wednesday evening and gave him some oxygen.

Rouse says the apartment resident had taken some warm clothes from the dryer and set them on a couch near some oily rags, then left the apartment. The spokesman says the combination of heat and the oily rags created spontaneous combustion. The apartment’s automatic sprinklers contained the fire to the couch.

Apartment Building, Residential

Apartment fire extinguished by sprinkler system (Iqaluit, NU)

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler system extinguishes apartment fire started by unattended smoking material (Republic, MO)

A sprinkler system extinguished a fire Saturday at an apartment complex in Republic that suffered major fire damage two years ago.  Republic city officials required the sprinkler system to be installed after the first fire in 2010 that caused  $600,000 in damage.  The fire on Saturday started on the deck of unit H-6 after someone left smoking materials unattended.  “This time we were lucky,” Compton said. “The sprinkler system put it out.”

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler system extinguishes apartment fire in second floor bedroom (Boise, ID)

Fire officials say an four-plex building in South Boise avoided major fire damage late Tuesday night thanks to a sprinkler system that put out a blaze before crews got there. 

When crews arrived, they found that the sprinkler system in the building was able to put out the fire before it could spread. The fire ignited after a candle fell off a window sill in the bedroom of a second-floor unit but did not spread to the sheetrock — or anywhere else in the apartment.

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler system contains third floor apartment fire (Chesterfield, VA)

“It could have been a disaster without the sprinkler system,” Battalion Chief Robby Dawson of Chesterfield Fire and EMS Fire Marshal’s office said. “More residents would have been affected and we would have been on scene at least two days doing an investigation instead of the few hours we were there. The sprinklers made the difference. The system saved lives.”