Apartment Building, Residential North Stafford, VA – Apartment complex fire held in check by sprinkler system; No injuries January 11, 2017 viking210 A fire in a North Stafford apartment complex Friday afternoon damaged three apartments, but no one was injured. Stafford County firefighters responded to an apartment building on Minuteman Circle shortly before 2:45 p.m. and found a fire on the patio of a ground-floor unit that had spread into the apartment and to the balconies of the two units directly above, according to a news release from Stafford Fire and Rescue. The building’s sprinkler system held the fire in check until firefighters could extinguish it. The three damaged units at Stonegate Apartments were deemed uninhabitable, displacing 10 adults and five children who were relocated to other facilities. The fire caused an estimated $75,000 in property damage and $10,000 in damage to building contents. The sprinkler system and a quick attack by firefighters is credited for saving $1.9 million in property and contents.
