Apartment Building, Residential Everett, WA – Sprinkler system knocks down early morning apartment fire February 12, 2018 viking210 Sprinklers and alarms did their job this morning after a fire broke out inside a unit at the NorthStar Apartments in the 3300 block of Lombard in Everett, Washington. Shortly before 6 AM fire alarms were sounding and as the first Everett Fire engine arrived people were evacuating and reporting smoke and sprinkler activation on the first floor. One person was removed from a ground floor unit by firefighters. He was taken by aid car to Providence Regional Medical Center to be checked as a precaution. The sprinklers knocked down the fire and crews finished putting it out. The fire was contained to the one unit. An Everett Fire inspector is on scene now looking into the cause.