Apartment Building, Residential Gainesville, FL – Fire in elevator room at off-campus apartment complex extinguished by sprinkler system October 9, 2015 viking210 A fire in an elevator’s engine room at The Bartram apartments on Southwest Archer Road was extinguished by a fire sprinkler Wednesday night. GFR units were dispatched to Bartram at 10:48 p.m. Wednesday due to an active fire alarm, a Gainesville Fire Rescue news release said. When they arrived, the crews found smoke in an elevator shaft and the call was upgraded at that point to a building fire. It turned out that there was a fire in the engine room beside the elevator, so a sprinkler was activated and the flames were extinguished quickly, the news release said. The fire was contained in the engine room and there were no injuries reported. GFR emphasized in its release that having a working sprinkler system usually can contain or extinguish a fire until Fire Rescue personnel arrive.
