Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Delray Beach, FL – Kitchen fire at assisted living facility quickly contained by sprinkler system May 6, 2015 viking210 Two floors of an assisted living facility in suburban Delray Beach were evacuated Monday night when a small fire started in the kitchen of an apartment, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue reports. The fire started just before 9:15 p.m. in the 14000 block of Sims Road at Grand Villa of Delray Beach, north of Atlantic Avenue and west of Military Trail. The building’s fire alarm and sprinkler system were activated and crews were quickly able to get the fire under control, said Capt. Albert Borroto, spokesman for Fire Rescue. The first and second floors of the facility were evacuated as a precaution. There was no fire extension into any of the other units, Borroto said. At 10:30 p.m., the building was being ventilated and residents from the second floor were allowed back into their homes. It was not known how many residents from the first floor remained displaced late Monday.
