Apartment Building, Residential Roanoke, VA – Sprinkler helps contain afternoon apartment fire April 16, 2015 viking210 One person has been displaced following an apartment building fire Wednesday afternoon in Roanoke County. Firefighters arrived around 1:30 p.m. to a six-story apartment building in the 5300 block of Hawthorne Road in Hollins, said Fire & Rescue spokeswoman Jennifer Conley Sexton. An overhead sprinkler system extinguished most of the fire in a kitchen on the fourth floor before crews from North County, Hollins and Roanoke arrived, Sexton said.