Gainesville and Alachua County Fire Rescue responded to an apartment fire on Sunday.
A resident reported smoke inside of their apartment on the third floor around 5 p.m.
When rescuers arrived, heavy smoke was visible inside, but the sprinkler system inside contained the fire to the closet.
Crews were quickly able to extinguish the small fire.
No people were injured.
Twenty firefighters, two chief officers and a fire investigator responded to the incident, which was caused by unattended cooking in one of the units.
“Fortunately the fire was quickly suppressed by a sprinkler located in the kitchen,” said Carmen Westfall, a fire prevention officer at Corvallis Fire Department. “The sprinkler did exactly what it’s supposed to do.”
While the fire damage was contained to the kitchen area, 10 people are now displaced because of the water damage caused by the downward trickle of the sprinkler system. There were no reported injuries.
“Unattended cooking is the No. 1 cause of home fires,” Westfall said. “When you’re finished cooking, make sure you turn off your burners.”
A senior citizen was rescued from an apartment fire Tuesday night.
Firefighters responded to the senior apartment building, The Veranda at Whitted School, located at 200 East Umstead St., around 10:15 p.m.
A neighbor met firefighters to tell them an apartment was on fire.
The crew entered a smoke-filled apartment and rescued one resident inside a bedroom. The resident was in good condition but was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Firefighters said an unattended hot stove may have caused the fire. A sprinkler system helped extinguished the fire, but there was water damage in the apartment and in a daycare located below.
If you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol, don’t use the stove or stovetop, officials warned, saying cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires and home injuries.
The fire began around 9:30 p.m. at the Belcourt Park Apartments on Belcourt Avenue.
No injuries were reported but the building has heavy water damage and smoke damage to the first and second floors while the remaining floors were not impacted, according to the Nashville Fire Department.
Fire officials reported crews arrived to find light smoke coming from the first floor of the five-story building and determined the fire was between the first and second floors, originating in the building’s community space.
Firefighters guided the residents outside though many were self-evacuating due to the fire alarm going off.
The Nashville Electric Service cut power to the building and all 76 units were evacuated for the night.
The American Red Cross was contacted to help the displaced residents. Those with pets were escorted back into the building to retrieve them before they were relocated.
“There were no real hazards other than locating the source of the fire when they arrived on scene. Between the first and second floor literally means that the fire was located in the ceiling of the floor so they had to search around for it a bit to locate the source of the fire. But as soon as they did that they were able to quickly extinguish it, but the sprinkler system did activate before we arrived on the scene. So that is going to attribute to a lot of the water damage that is going to be seen in this building,” explained Nashville Fire Department spokesperson Kendra Loney.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The fire-suppression system doused a fire in the living room of a first-floor apartment, with follow-up effort by volunteer firefighters who answered the 12:15 p.m. alarm, said Chief Bobby Holiday.
No injuries occurred, he said.
As of 12:40 p.m., the cause of the fire was under investigation, and it remained to be determined if the apartment would be immediately habitable, Holiday said.
The three-story River Street Commons, bounded by Shrewsbury and Bridge avenues at Catherine Street, occupies the former River Street School building.
It was first reported just after 5 a.m. in the apartment complex along the 200 block of North Depot Street.
The fire started inside one of the affordable housing units on the second floor, officials said.
Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire inside the apartment.
There was significant water damage from the building’s fire sprinkler system, the fire department said.
Some of the residents were displaced by the fire. The local Red Cross is working to find them temporary housing.
According to Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R), the fire was contained before too much damage was sustained. The building had vinyl siding, which burns quickly. The fire activated a sprinkler inside the building but there were no injuries and no one is displaced.
Officials said the fire could have been much worse. However, there was some water damage inside. The fire began due to carelessly discarded smoking material.
Houseless/tent fires increased from one in February 2021 to 64 in April 2021. The latest data, recorded in May 2021 from PF&R shows 45 fires for the month of May. In May, it accounted for the most number of calls to PF&R, followed by trash fires with 42 calls in May 2021.
“This building did have vinyl siding and our crews did do a great stop on this fire,” said Rob Garrison, public information officer with PF&R said in an email. “A few more minutes and the fire would have spread to the inside of the building.”
The fire was reported at 3731 Technology Drive Northwest. A Fire Department news release says the initial call was made by the building’s alarm system and was followed by multiple 911 calls that confirmed flames and smoke were present. When firefighters arrived at the scene just before 2 PM they found smoke, fire, and water spray from the sprinkler system coming from a window on the fourth floor of the building.
The responding firefighters rushed to the fourth floor while a firefighter on an aerial ladder inspected the roof for signs of a fire extension. They discovered the sprinkler system had done its job and extinguished the fire after confining it to a single apartment unit. Fans were then deployed to remove the smoke and other equipment was brought in to remove the water from the sprinkler system.
No injuries were reported and a dollar estimate of the damage is not yet available. The fire department also did not list a cause for the fire but it appears it started on the stovetop.
An apartment building in Wylie is damaged after a fire on Wednesday morning.
According to the Wylie Fire Department, the incident occurred at 1315 West Brown Street at approximately 4:10 a.m.
Officials said a three story apartment building had smoke showing on the third floor.
The sprinkler system was able to suppress the blaze before firefighters could arrive on the scene, officials said.
According to officials, cats were evacuated from the third floor unit, and the second floor unit sustained water damage.
Officials said the attic and roof were unharmed.
Fire crews had a busy Sunday, as they battled three different blazes in 10 hours across Winnipeg.
Just after midnight, a vacant home on Arlington Avenue caught fire. The same house was also the scene of a fire about a year ago.
Then at about 2:30 yesterday morning, a three storey apartment building on De La Seigneurie Boulevard was evacuated when the building’s sprinkler system extinguished a kitchen fire.
The third fire happened around 10 a.m. at a commercial building on Gateway Road. It was limited to a small room and only took a few minutes to put out.
No one was hurt in any of the incidents and all of them are under investigation.
