Other - Retail, Retail Madison, WI – Overnight fire at retail store extinguished by sprinkler system October 27, 2016 viking210 An automatic sprinkler system put out a small fire near a cash register at a West Side retail store early Wednesday, keeping the fire from spreading. Nobody was hurt in the fire at Shopko, 7401 Mineral Point Road, the Madison Fire Department said. Firefighters were sent to the store shortly before 3 a.m. to investigate a water flow alarm. “Looking through the front doors, Ladder 2 saw there was a light haze in the front of the store and smoke banked down toward the back of the store,” said fire department spokeswoman Cynthia Schuster. Firefighters got keys from an outdoor key vault and went inside, finding a sprinkler had activated above a cash register, putting out a small fire. No other fire was found in the store. No damage estimate or cause of the fire was given.
