Apartment Building, Residential McKinney, TX – Apartment kitchen fire controlled by single automatic sprinkler, limiting fire damage January 20, 2018 viking210 Firefighters were called to the Magnolia Ranch Apartments, 3191 Medical Center Dr., at 6:21 p.m. last night for a water flow alarm. They arrived to find that a cooking fire in the kitchen had been extinguished by an overhead fire sprinkler. The single sprinkler is credited for the limited fire damage and shines a light on the value of having fire sprinkler systems installed. The resident was treated for smoke inhalation. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), kitchen fires account for about half of all home fires and fire injuries. Unattended cooking was a factor in 33 percent of all kitchen fires. “This demonstrates the effectiveness of automatic fire sprinkler systems. A kitchen fire like this could spread quickly in an apartment building environment,” says McKinney Fire Marshal Mike Smith. “Without the sprinkler system, the outcome could have been much worse.
