Apartment Building, Residential Chesterfield, VA – Early morning apartment fire extinguished by sprinkler system June 23, 2016 viking210 A sprinkler system is being credited with quickly extinguishing a fire early Wednesday at an apartment building in Chesterfield. A fire was reported about 2:30 a.m. on the balcony of a third-floor apartment in the 4500 block of Valley Crest Drive, but the building’s sprinkler system extinguished the blaze before firefighters arrived, said Lt. Jason Elmore of Chesterfield County Fire and EMS. The fire was caused by a discarded cigarette, Elmore said. Damage was limited to a section of siding on the building. No one was injured, but the apartment building was evacuated while firefighters investigated the incident.
