A fire sprinkler system, which activated at a retail plaza which houses multiple businesses, extinguished a fire that occurred in the plaza’s utility control room. The fire crews found that the fire which had been burning but was the eliminated by the sprinkler system. No injuries were reported and the businesses in the plaza were not affected. “This was an instance of the way the building is engineered, with alarms and fire sprinkler system, doing what it is supposed to do,” said AFD Deputy Chief Garth Rabel. The cause of the fire is being investigated, but preliminary reports show that it is “suspicious in nature.”
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Sprinkler system aids firefighters at fire in Toys R Us (Paramus, NJ)
“The store’s automatic fire sprinkler system kept the fire contained,” Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within a half hour, and all of the store’s employees were able to evacuate the premises safely. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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*** Blog Editor’s Note – Please let us know what you think of the coverage by the Press-Telegram and City News Service, who focused on water damage rather than the lives and property saved by the automatic fire sprinkler system ***
