Firefighters were called to the 200 block of 14th Street Northwest just after 2 a.m. Tuesday, June 4. When they got on scene, they found a dryer on fire on the fourth floor of the building.
Crews credit the sprinkler system for keeping the fire contained to just the dryer.
“One of the lessons of an incident like this is just how important it is to have a working sprinkler system and alarm system,” Charlottesville Fire Chief Andrew Baxter said. “That sprinkler system saved lives tonight, there’s no question about it.”
No one was inside the apartment at the time of the fire.
Baxter says people living inside two apartments have temporarily been displaced due to smoke and water damage throughout the building.
