Category Archives: Residential
Victoria, BC, Canada – Sprinkler system contains apartment fire as RCMP officers help residents evacuate
Gardiner, ME – Fire Chief credits sprinkler system with saving lives and property in apartment blaze
“At the press conference after the 2015 debacle, I said had that building had a sprinkler system, there would have been no press conference,” he said.
Nearly eight months before the 2015 fire, Royce Watson bought the building where the fire occurred Tuesday.
“It was a distressed property,” Watson said, “and it had a fairly good price, so that enabled me to update the sprinkler and fire alarm systems.”
The building has four retail units on the ground floor and eight apartments on the upper two floors.
Because the building already had a sprinkler system, he said, he had to either make it operational or remove it. He opted to fix it.
The apartment where the fire broke out sustained some smoke damage and the stove will have to be replaced, he said.
Watson, whose company, Wilcris LLC, owns other rental properties in the region, said the water from the sprinkler went into the unit below — his office — soaking his computer and some paperwork and bills on his desk.
While he said tenants share the responsibility for safety, he said he’s glad the system saved the building and that everyone is OK.
“I can’t thank him enough for his efforts on the sprinkler system,” Nelson said. “That saved the block.”
Starkville, MS – Possible arson fire at off-campus apartment complex doused by sprinkler system
Little Rock, AR – Fire at low income housing building controlled with help from sprinkler system
Racine, WI – Sprinkler system contains apartment fire after magazine fell on unattended candle
Everett, WA – Sprinkler systems limits spread of early morning apartment fire; No injuries
Arlington, TX – Sprinkler system extinguishes apartment kitchen fire; No injuries reported
Fargo, ND – Kitchen fire at senior living center extinguished by sprinkler system