Apartment Building, Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential, Residential High Rise Columbia, MO – Single sprinkler activates to control fire in apartments for seniors and disabled May 25, 2015 viking210 Officials said unattended cooking was the cause of a Thursday fire in an apartment at Paquin Tower, 1201 Paquin St., according to a Columbia Fire Department news release. A fire department crew was dispatched at 9:39 p.m. to the apartment building, where water was spotted coming from under an apartment door. According to the news release, one sprinkler head brought the fire under control and 84 percent of residential fires are contained by one sprinkler head. The crew remained on the scene to clean up the water in the apartment and in the hallway.
