Apartment Building, Residential Portland, OR – 6th floor apartment fire extinguished by sprinkler system February 27, 2017 viking210 A man was taken to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation Wednesday after a fire broke out in a Northwest Portland apartment. The man, who wasn’t publicly identified, was the only person injured in the blaze that closed Northwest Everett Street between 20th and 21st avenues, said Lt. Rich Chatman, a Portland Fire & Rescue spokesman. Chatman said a couch in a sixth-floor unit caught fire and that the building’s sprinkler system extinguished the flames. The building was evacuated as a precaution, Chatman said. Firefighters efforts were hampered briefly by one resident who did not want to leave the building, Chatman said. The man had a weapon but the confrontation ended peacefully, he said. Firefighters responded to the fire around 3:50 p.m. Some began leaving the area within an hour.
