Apartment Building, Residential Florence, SC – Sprinkler system kept stove fire in check until fire crews arrived April 3, 2019 viking210 One Florence apartment suffered slight fire and some water damage while 23 others in the same building escaped damage Sunday afternoon. Howe Springs firefighters responded shortly after 1:30 p.m. to Charles Pointe Apartments to a reported kitchen fire. A resident cooking lunch either left it unattended or it boiled over onto the stove and it caught fire, said Howe Springs Fire Chief William Dillon. The building’s sprinkler system kept the fire in check until firefighters arrived and extinguished it, Dillon said. The building’s fire alarm system alerted every other resident in the building to evacuate. Dillon said firefighters remained on scene to isolate the sprinkler flow to the apartment, salvage threatened content and then help remove water from the first-floor apartment before other apartments could be damaged. Dillon said the resident will be out of their apartment for several days while repairs are made. No injuries were reported as a result of the blaze. Howe Springs responded three engines, a ladder truck and 20 firefighters.
