Apartment Building, Residential Halifax, NS, Canada – Apartment kitchen fire extinguished by sprinkler system; No injuries reported March 14, 2016 viking210 A third-floor apartment kitchen fire during noon hour left a building at 334 Parkland Dr. was extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system. Four apparatuses and 12 firefighters responded to the blaze. The call came in at 12:54 p.m. last Wednesday, and firefighters were there shortly thereafter, Blackburn said. “The sprinkler system worked perfectly fine, but the water flow had ramifications on that floor as well as floors below,” Blackburn said. The sprinklers were shut down within about 10 minutes, he said. “You never want to turn (sprinkler systems) off too early. We wanted to make sure the fire had been extinguished prior to shutting any suppression systems down,” he said. The building was evacuated, but tenants were allowed to go back into apartments that weren’t affected by the fire, he said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. The room of origin was the kitchen in Apt. 310, he said.
