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Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential

Retirement community fire put out by sprinkler system (Olathe, KS)

February 6, 2012 viking210

A single sprinkler head activated and extinguished retirement community fire. No one was hurt.

Kansas Morning (7am-12pm)

Residential, Single Family Home

Single Sprinkler Head Helps Save 6 Children and 5 Adults from House Fire (Marietta, GA)

February 6, 2012 viking210

A home sprinkler system helped save 11 people from a fire early Saturday. The fire broke out in the early morning hours when most of the six children, 4 to 12 years old, and five adults were asleep.

Several adults tried to put the fire out, but it was a single sprinkler head that did the job before the city Fire Department arrived.

Georgia

Residence Hall/Dormitory, Residential

Sprinkler system plays important role in PSU dorm fire (Portland, OR)

February 2, 2012 viking210 1 Comment

Sprinkler system helped put out dorm fire, allowing time for about 300 students to evacuate safely.

Early AM (5am-7am)Oregon

Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential

Sprinkler system saves vulnerable adults following mattress fire (Victoria, BC)

February 1, 2012 viking210

A mattress fire was no match for the sprinkler system at a supported housing unit in Victoria, home to adults with mental illness and addiction issues.

British Columbia Canada

Apartment Building, Residential

Apartment kitchen fire doused by sprinkler system (Rock Hill, SC)

February 1, 2012 viking210

A stove-top fire at the Palmetto Place apartments this morning was doused by the apartment’s sprinkler system fire officials said.

An official with the Riverview Fire Department said the fire had been doused by the sprinkler by the time firefighters arrived.

Morning (7am-12pm)South Carolina

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler system extingished apartment building fire (Cincinnati, OH)

January 31, 2012 viking210

The first units discovered that there had been a small fire in an apartment on the tenth floor of the twelve story high-rise building. The fire had activated the sprinkler system. There were no reported injuries.

Evening (6pm-9pm)Ohio

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler system contained apartment fire (Erie, CO)

January 30, 2012 viking210

A fire official says automated sprinklers held an Erie apartment fire in check early Tuesday.

Colorado Early AM (5am-7am)

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler system extinguished apartment kitchen fire (Houston, TX)

January 30, 2012 viking210

Approximately 50 firefighters arrived within minutes of the call to find the fire extinguished by the sprinkler system. No injuries were reported. The incident was cooking related, with the resident accidentally catching the oil in a frying pan on fire.

Early AM (5am-7am)Texas

Apartment Building, Residential

Fire sprinkler helped extinguish apartment kitchen fire (Las Vegas, NV)

January 30, 2012 viking210

Nevada

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinklers saved life of Laconia man smoking while on oxygen (Boston, MA)

January 29, 2012 viking210

Sprinkler system saved life of Laconia man smoking while on oxygen. “Smoke detectors went off, but didn’t wake him up”, Fire Chief Kenneth Erickson said.

Afternoon (12pm-6pm)Massachusetts

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