Apartment Building, Residential Hillsboro, OR – Apartment fire caused by resident smoking in bed is limited by sprinkler system; No injuries December 5, 2016 viking210 An apartment’s sprinkler system is credited for limiting the damage of a mattress fire early Friday morning. Hillsboro Fire and Rescue say the fire started in a unit at Wyndhaven Apartments on SW Edgeway Drive. A woman told officials she was smoking in bed and fell asleep. The sprinkler system in her unit put out the fire but caused damage to furniture in the apartment and seeped into the apartment downstairs. Other resident’s in the complex fled. No one was injured. The total damage of the fire is estimated at $5,000.
