Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system extinguishes apartment fire in second floor bedroom (Boise, ID) July 18, 2012 viking210 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) July 18, 2012 viking210 “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.”
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system contains garage fire at multi-unit apartment complex (Ventura, CA) July 16, 2012 viking210 Firefighters responded to reports of smoke from a building and the sound of a fire alarm. The building was evacuated, and firefighters entered and found a small blaze being sprayed by fire sprinklers, authorities said.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler System Extinguishes Apartment Grease Fire (Pasadena, CA) July 4, 2012 viking210 A grease fire in a kitchen of a Pasadena apartment was extinguished by the building’s automatic fire sprinkler system. This is the second sprinkler save in a Pasadena apartment fire in the last three months.
Apartment Building, Residential Apartment kitchen fire contained by sprinkler system (Chilliwack, BC, Canada) June 27, 2012 viking210 2 Comments “Fire crews entered the suite and found a pot on the stove had activated a sprinkler head,” said Jeff Ullyot, assistant fire chief. “The sprinkler controlled and extinguished the fire, preventing it from extending beyond the stove,” he said. Minor fire and smoke damage was limited to a microwave and an area of the upper cupboards. Ullyot said sprinkler systems continue to prove their worth by limiting fire damage and preventing fire-related injuries and deaths.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system extinguished ninth-floor apartment fire (Wilmington, DE) June 26, 2012 viking210 The fire was a result of of unattended cooking in a ninth-floor apartment. It was extinguished when two building sprinkler heads activated.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system contains apartment fire (Village of Oak Creek, AZ) June 22, 2012 viking210 In less than five minutes, sprinklers in the ground floor center apartment had activated and doused the fire. Crews extinguished the balance of the fire and removed the sofa from the apartment. The residents, a family with two young children, were not home at the time of the blaze, but the other residents in the complex were able to return to their apartments. “The automatic fire sprinkler system did its job, providing quick notification of the fire to the residents in the adjacent apartments, containing the fire to the living room and preventing the fire from spreading to other apartments in the building,” stated Sedona Fire District Fire Marshal Gary Johnson.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system prevents apartment fire from spreading beyond kitchen (Green Valley, AZ) June 20, 2012 viking210 2 Comments A sprinkler prevented a fire from spreading beyond the kitchen of a home in the Michelle Manor Apartments in Green Valley on Monday evening. The resident had been heating oil in a cast iron skillet when she went outside to check on the grill and visit with friends, according to the Green Valley Fire District. She returned to find the pan on fire and the flames too intense to extinguish. “Fires like this are a great example of how quickly a fire can be extinguished and how major loss of property or life prevented by sprinklers,” GVFD Operations Chief Chuck Wunder said.
Apartment Building, Residential Apartment fire contained by sprinkler system (Mesa, AZ) June 20, 2012 viking210 An apartment was saved after its sprinkler system kicked in and extinguished a fire in a laundry basket in a bathroom. The activated sprinkler was able to keep the fire contained in the bathroom and prevent it from spreading to the rest of the apartment or neighboring units. Mesa Fire says that this is the third fire in the past month that was managed in the early stages by an active sprinkler system.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system aids firefighters in extinguishing apartment fire (Gainesville, GA) June 20, 2012 viking210 The accidental discharge of a flare gun sparked a fire Tuesday afternoon inside The Retreat at McEver Apartments. “The sprinkler system in the building had all but extinguished the fire upon the arrival of the fire department,” said Gainesville Fire Chief Jon Canada. He said no other apartment units were damaged by the blaze and no injuries were reported.
