Apartment Building, Residential Layton, UT – Sprinkler system stops grease fire at apartment building December 13, 2014 viking210 A mother and her three children should be able to move back into their apartment, with their possessions virtually intact after a fire last week, thanks to an automatic sprinkler system that held a grease fire to the stove top. Layton fire crews were called to the fire at the Grayhawk Apartments, 2925 N. Church Street, where they found the woman standing outside her apartment building. “Fire crews found water coming from the second story landing of the complex,” Bitton said. “They entered the apartment and found one activated fire sprinkler running above the stove top and charred remains of a pan with tortillas in the sink.” Fire crews have seen numerous incidents where tenants would be displaced from their living space and their personal items and furnishing damaged beyond use without sprinkler systems, Bitton said. “Although devastating for this mother and her children, they can reoccupy with no significant fire damage spread,”Bitton said. The apartment complex’s sprinkler system is designed with a calibrated premix of glycerin to ensure there would be no freezing in the attic or breezeway areas, something Bitton said Layton fire officials are impressed with.
