Fire / Police Station, Warehouse Kansas City, MO – Fire at police evidence warehouse contained by sprinkler system August 26, 2018 viking210 A warehouse used by Kansas City police to store evidence and property was damaged by a fire early Thursday. Kansas City firefighters were called about 12:30 a.m. to the 5300 block of Municipal Avenue. Fire crews said a sprinkler system did work, containing the fire. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Police said they are assessing the damage, and that is too early to know how many cases will be effected. Officials said only a few shelves out of the entire warehouse were burned. That warehouse contained evidence dating back to the 1970’s. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office said it is working with KCPD to determine any potential impact to criminal cases.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Suffolk, VA – Sprinkler system helps contain warehouse fire; No injuries reported August 19, 2018 viking210 Crews with Suffolk Fire & Rescue responded to a commercial fire at the Pacorini Global Warehouse in the 100 block of Industrial Drive Wednesday afternoon. The call originated as a fire alarm with water flow from a sprinkler at 2:13 p.m. Firefighters arrived at the warehouse to find moderate smoke coming from one of the facility’s back doors and immediately began an interior search. The fire was contained to two large lumber packing crates with the sprinkler system active in the immediate area. Firefighters conducted a secondary search of the building after extinguishing the fire. The affected crates were removed from the warehouse. The fire was called under control at 2:34 p.m. No evacuations were required, and no one was injured. Crews remained at the scene to ventilate the building. The Norfolk Fire Department provided mutual aid with a fan truck. The Fire Marshal’s Office is handling the investigation.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Everett, WA – Plastic fire in warehouse knocked down by sprinkler system May 24, 2018 viking210 Saturday afternoon Everett Firefighters were called to a warehouse in the 7200 Block of Hardeson Road in southwest Everett to a report of a fire alarm. The first engine in found smoke coming from a large industrial building. Firefighters entered and found the sprinkler system had knocked down a fire in some plastic material. The building was filled with smoke and it took crews some time to get the building aired out but damage was minimal. An investigator was working to determine the cause of the fire. No damage estimate was available.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Hamilton, ON, Canada – Sprinkler system helps limit damage, saves structure in food warehouse fire May 16, 2018 viking210 The facility where all food for Fortino’s supermarkets is stored and packaged suffered heavy smoke damage after a multiple-alarm fire broke out in a back storage area Friday morning. Firefighters were called to the commercial building on Rymal Road East around 9:22 a.m. and found a large fire in a room where cardboard is stored. The building’s sprinkler system had activated and additional firefighters were called in to take on the flames with an “aggressive interior attack,” according to department spokesperson, Claudio Mostacci. No injuries reported Officials say smoke from the fire caused a total of $255,000 in damage, including $233,000-worth of food. Mostacci said the city’s Health Department was called in because of the damaged food. No injuries were reported. The Ontario Fire Marshal has been called in to investigate what caused the fire.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Medford, OR – Warehouse fire controlled by sprinkler system; Fire kept small minimizing damage May 8, 2018 viking210 A well maintained sprinkler system helps keeps warehouse fire small in Medford last Thursday. At 7:53 p.m. Medford Fire-Rescue responded to a an alarm sounding on the 500 block of S. Front Street. When firefighters arrived they found a warehouse with the smell of smoke and the fire sprinklers were on. Additional crews from Jackson County Fire District #3,#5 and Medford Police were called to assist. Fire crews were able to locate the small fire and extinguish it quickly. They then moved on to getting the smoke out of the building. “Early detection by alarm systems and a well maintained sprinkler system kept this fire small, resulting in minor damage,” MFR wrote on their Facebook page. The Deputy Fire Marshall says it appears that the fire started outside near an old wooden reinforced garage door. The fire then moved into the warehouse and caught a shipping crate material that stored two air conditioner radiators on fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. No injuries were reported.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Waterbury, VT – Warehouse fire is kept from spreading by automatic sprinkler system May 5, 2018 viking210 Officials are investigating what sparked a warehouse fire in Waterbury. Waterbury Fire Chief Gary Dillon said crews were called to 35 Foundry Street just after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. Dillon said the fire started on the outside of the warehouse, and eventually spread to the inside of the building. On Wednesday afternoon, Vermont State Police said the fire started in an open storage area that had a metal roof over it. “There were some items being stored in this area, which caught fire and spread outwards and upwards to nearby combustible materials,” Vermont State Police said in a press release. “It was learned this area is known to be a hangout where people smoke and drink at night based on what was discovered in the fire remains.” Dillon said the sprinkler system inside the warehouse prevented the fire from spreading. Officials say no one was in the building at the time of the fire. No injuries were reported. Anyone with information is asked to call Vermont State Police Detective Sgt. Todd Ambroz at 802-229-9191 or the Vermont Arson Tip Award Program at 1-800-322-7766.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Phoenix, AZ – Sprinkler system helps extinguish warehouse fire before crews arrive May 4, 2018 viking210 Crews that work with hazardous materials were called out to a warehouse when a fire broke out on Sunday afternoon. It happened near 36th Street and Broadway Road. Firefighters said most of the fire was out by the time they got there thanks to the sprinkler system. There was a 55-gallon chemical container that contained an unknown substance may have started the fire, the fire department said. Hazardous materials teams are trying to figure out if the substance is flammable and would start another fire.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Pleasantville, NJ – Warehouse fire contained by sprinkler system; Firefighters finish the job April 26, 2018 viking210 Firefighters extinguished a fire Saturday in a commercial building in the 700 block of West Delilah Road. Firefighters were dispatched to the ABC Supply Co. for a report of activated fire and water flow alarms at 4:10 p.m. Fire crews smelled smoke, forced a door and found heavy smoke in the warehouse, Battalion Chief Scott Trythall said, and found materials inside the warehouse on fire. “The sprinkler system was activated and contained the fire until we were able to locate the seat of the fire and extinguish it all the way,” Trythall said. The incident was under control within 45 minutes, he said. The Farmington and West Atlantic City volunteer fire companies covered the Pleasantville station while the South Jersey Airport Fire Department’s Station 1 and Northfield and Absecon companies responded to the scene, Trythall said. Pleasantville police also responded and Tricare EMS provided rehab, he said. There were no injuries, Trythall said.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Edwardsville, IL – Sprinkler system assists firefighters in controlling warehouse storage fire April 6, 2018 viking210 The Edwardsville Fire Department spent five hours attacking a fire and its aftermath at a redistribution center located near I-255 Wednesday afternoon. Fire Chief Rick Welle said the call came to the station from the D.B. Schanker redistribution center, located at 3049 Westway Drive, at around 2:18 p.m. Thursday for a direct alarm call. Those calls come from buildings – mostly commercial – with sprinkler systems. The fire department is notified when the sprinklers come into action. Welle said that alarm was followed by a 911 call from within the building alerting his department to an active fire. When firefighters arrived at the scene, Welle said they found several pallets of feminine hygiene products aflame. Mutual aid on the scene was provided by both the Wood River and Glen Carbon Fire Departments, and the Glen Carbon and Collinsville Fire Departments had EMS to back-fill the Edwardsville station. No injuries were reported from the fire, despite and ambulance being on scene, Welle said. The cause of that fire is still under investigation. Welle said he could not estimate the amount of product lost to the blaze, but said his department worked with workers within the building, using forklifts and skid-steers to take the product outside for ventilation. Besides fire, lots of water and smoke damage was done within the southern part of the building, but little to no damage was done to the building itself. Welle said the redistribution center was able to quarantine the rest of the building from the southern portion, ensuring the rest of the products stored within were not damaged by fire, smoke or water. The fire department is working with the company itself to determine exact losses. A ventilation fan was brought from the Fairview Heights Fire Department to ensure the building had been properly and thoroughly ventilated. Welle said firefighters stayed on the scene until around 7:00 p.m. Thursday to assist with that ventilation and cleanup.
Storage / Warehouse, Warehouse Mebane, NC – Early morning warehouse fire contained to area of origin by sprinkler system March 31, 2018 viking210 Crews are working to figure out what caused an industrial fire at the Kidde warehouse in Mebane early Tuesday morning. Mebane fire officials say the fire started around 5:12 a.m. An automatic fire alarm went off, alerting Mebane and Haw River firefighters. Efland, Pleasant Grove, and Sweponsville firefighters also responded. Crews put the fire out just before 9 a.m. They say the fire started in a storage facility on the Kidde property, which stored merchandise including smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers. Fire crews say no was hurt inside the facility or at the plant when the fire started, and no one was injured putting out the fire. “The sprinkler system actually kept the fire contained in its area of origin, but it’s a fairly large area, there were several heads that activated,” said Mebane Fire Chief Bob Louis. Crews are still on scene investigating what started the fire. They hope to have an answer by Tuesday afternoon. Kidde has operated in Mebane for decades but expanded its plant in the last few years. Fire officials tell us the storage facility where the fire started is part of the older area of the plant.
