Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Cedar Rapids, IA – No injuries after sprinkler system puts out nursing home laundry fire October 12, 2017 viking210 A fire in the laundry room of a Cedar Rapids nursing home was quickly extinguished Saturday night.The fire was reported at 10:37 p.m. at Living Center East, 1220 Fifth Ave. SE. When fire crews arrived, they found the building’s sprinkler system already had extinguished a fire in a basket in the laundry room. Firefighters determined the fire had not spread beyond the laundry basket and turned off the sprinkler system. No one was hurt and no residents were displaced, fire officials said.
