Apartment Building, Residential Firefighters credit sprinklers with containing apartment fire (Lugoff, SC) March 2, 2012 viking210 “This fire had the potential to be a major fire affecting a lot of people, including the safety of our firefighters, if the sprinklers were not there to stop the fire from spreading throughout the apartment and adjoining apartments,” said Lugoff Fire Chief Dennis Ray.
Apartment Building, Residential Fire sprinkler helps put out apartment fire (Dallas, TX) February 27, 2012 viking210 Firefighters were called to the Carrollton Park Apartments around 1:20 Monday morning. No injuries were reported.
Apartment Building, Residential Sprinkler system extinguishes apartment fire (Vineland, NJ) February 27, 2012 viking210 Firefighters were sent at 9:34 Friday to 1 East Vine Street for a fire in a room at Maurice View Plaza apartments. A sprinkler extinguished the fire but ventilation was needed. Firefighters were there about 90 minutes.
Apartment Building, Residential Automatic sprinkler system contains apartment kitchen fire, no one was home (Navarre, FL) February 27, 2012 viking210 The fire started when a moving box was placed on the stove and a burner was accidentally turned on. No one was home at the time of the fire. “For the most part, we just had to do some final extinguishing, major part was put out by sprinkler system,” Holley-Navarre Fire Chief Ron Norton said.
Apartment Building, Residential Mother charged after apartment fire with her two children at home, sprinkler system credited with containing fire (Laurel, MD) February 27, 2012 viking210 A Laurel mother was arrested and charged this afternoon after firefighters found her unconscious and her two young children wet from the spray of the sprinklers in their Main Street apartment.
Apartment Building, Residential No Injuries in High-Rise Apartment Fire Contained by Sprinklers (Elgin, IL) February 27, 2012 viking210 A sprinkler system helped keep a fire that started in a ninth-floor apartment from spreading to other units of the 10-story building Saturday afternoon, Elgin fire officials said.
Apartment Building, Residential Arson causes fire; sprinkler system contains it (Pittsburgh, PA) February 23, 2012 viking210 About two dozen residents were forced to evacuate their apartments after a man who had been fighting with his girlfriend set fire to mattresses in her bedroom. The sprinkler system inside the building kept the fire from spreading beyond the room.
Apartment Building, Residential Single Sprinkler Saves Lives and Property in Apartment Fire (Spartanburg, SC) February 22, 2012 viking210 Automatic fire sprinklers again prove their effectiveness in a kitchen fire in a 12th-floor apartment. No injuries reported.
Apartment Building, Residential Apartment meth lab fire extinguished by automatic sprinkler system (Panama City Beach, FL) February 20, 2012 viking210 An automatic sprinkler system at the Lake Town Wharf condominiums extinguished a meth lab fire.
Apartment Building, Residential Fire Chief Hails “Sprinkler Save” After Apartment Fire (Eden Prairie, MN) February 19, 2012 viking210 When a fire started in a closet in an Eden Prairie apartment, the result could have been devastating for the resident and neighbors. The city’s fire chief says a sprinkler saved the day.
