Apartment Building, Residential Holyoke, MA – Apartment bedroom fire contained by sprinkler system allowing occupants to escape uninjured November 12, 2018 viking210 A fire in a four-story apartment building in the flats section of the city damaged a bedroom Thursday evening. The fire was the second that happened in the city around 5 p.m. The other fire in a single-family home at 4 Loomis Ave. displaced two residents, Fire Capt. Kevin Cavagnac said. When firefighters arrived, they found flames in the first floor and basement. The fire at 222 East Dwight St. originated in the bedroom of a third-floor apartment. When firefighters arrived the residents of the apartment had escaped safely, he said. “Two sprinkler heads activated in the bedroom, containing the fire to the room or origin and allowing all occupants to escape uninjured,” Cavagnac said. The building is fully sprinklered, he said. Cavagnac did not say if anyone was displaced in the fire at 222 East Dwight St.
