Category Archives: Apartment Building
McKinney, TX – Apartment kitchen fire controlled by single automatic sprinkler, limiting fire damage
Lexington, KY – Sprinkler system extinguishes apartment fire originating in water heater
Lawrence, KS – Kitchen fire in loft apartment limited by automatic sprinkler system
Chilliwack, BC, Canada – Sprinkler system contains apartment fire caused by cooking illegal drugs
“We are just fortunate that nobody was injured,” RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Mike Rail said Monday.
Fire Chief Ian Josephson said that upon arrival they found a sprinkler head had activated extinguishing the fire.
“[The] majority of the damage in the unit was related to the vapour explosion with minor fire, smoke and water damage contained to the kitchen,” according to a CFD press release.
And while some residents on social media reported a drug lab exploded, or the incident was caused by a methamphetamine operation, Rail said it was a minor incident and not a meth lab.
Rail said an investigation is underway but no one was arrested Sunday evening.
The CFD said the fire was caused by the cooking of illegal drugs on the stove using a flammable gas.
Many of the residents of the New Mark were forced out on the street Sunday night, and some said there was a bad smell coming from the unit.
One resident who attended the unit after the explosion said the “kitchen was blown apart and there’s a huge hole in the wall.”
A photo posted on Facebook shows exposed beams of a wall inside one unit in the apartment.
A resident who said she lives below the unit in question said much of her property is seriously damaged by water after the fire was put out.
Speculation on social media quickly went towards the fire’s cause coming from illegal drug cooking of some kind in the apartment.
“[It’s] definitely really suspicious as the guy in the unit was saying something was on the stove and then the explosion happened but the female from the unit said they were just cooking spaghetti,” one neighbour said.
Bremerton, WA – Overnight arson fire at apartment building extinguished by sprinkler system
“We identified a person that didn’t belong in the building didn’t know who he was so he’s a person of interest we want to find this guy and chat with him.”
Bremerton Police shared the man’s photo on social media, and even said they believed they knew who he was.
Fire investigators wouldn’t identify him by name but said the surveillance cameras at the apartment complex helped them start the arson investigation.
Resident Andrew Feliciano said that both he and his dog Roosevelt escaped when the fire broke out. They live adjacent to the unit where the fire happened. He was surprised that authorities said a man who didn’t live there managed to get in, “this place is like Fort Knox, it’s very secure. I’m not sure how that guy got in.”
Fire investigators said nobody was hurt in the fire, and it didn’t spread to any other buildings, in fact there never appeared to be a danger of that happening. They said roughly a dozen residents may have been displaced by the fire.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 360-473-5228.
Yuma, AZ – Sprinkler system helps prevent damage, injuries in apartment fire
Milwaukee, WI – Apartment fire contained to one unit by sprinkler system
Norfolk, VA – Sprinkler system controls second floor apartment fire
Firefighters ventilated the smoke and sprinkler water from the building. One apartment has fire damage and two apartments have some water damage.
The Red Cross has been contacted to help the three people displaced.