Apartment Building, Residential Indiana, PA – Kitchen fire at off-campus apartment complex extinguished by sprinkler system November 4, 2016 viking210 Damage was confined to a first-floor apartment in a student housing complex near downtown Indiana early Monday afternoon when a fire started in a kitchen and set off a sprinkler, a fire official said. (Jamie Empfield/Gazette photo) The Indiana Fire Association responded at 12:15 p.m. to a general alarm call at a Philadelphia Square property on the southeast corner of Philadelphia and 10th streets. The fire began in some grease on a stove then flashed up to the ceiling when a tenant threw water on the fire, said Assistant Chief Ron Moreau of the Indiana Fire Association. The flame scorched the wall and activated the fire suppression sprinkler, which extinguished the flames, Moreau said. Indiana officials canceled the calls for backup help from the Homer City, Black Lick and Marion Center fire departments. Moreau said no one was hurt.
