Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential High Rise Pikeville, KY – Fire at residential high-rise for elderly and disabled extinguished by sprinkler system July 3, 2015 viking210 A sprinkler system quickly extinguished a fire at the Myers Towers apartments on the 700 block of Hambley Boulevard. The fire started sometime around 1:30 a.m. Friday on the 9th floor of the apartment building. When the Pikeville Fire Department arrived, they found a small fire in one of the apartments but the sprinkler system had knocked it down. PFD and Pikeville Police evacuated the apartment building, which houses the elderly and disabled in 200 units, while crews searched for the fire. There were no injuries and the cause of the fire is under investigation
