Apartment Building, Residential Roseburg, OR – Wheelchair-bound resident OK after sprinkler system extinguishes apartment fire April 12, 2016 viking210 Around midnight on April 8, the Roseburg Fire Department was dispatched to a fire in apartment #204 in the Grand Apartments at 730 SE Cass Ave. Fire officials say it was contained to the studio apartment and extinguished by the building’s automatic fire sprinkler system. The wheelchair-bound resident was found sitting on the floor when firefighters entered the room, the report said. He was evaluated for smoke inhalation and transported to Mercy Medical Center where he was released later Friday morning. Investigators say the fire was most likely caused by the apartment’s 60-year-old resident, who discarded a cigarette in a paper-filled trash can near a kitchen cabinet. The building’s automatic sprinkler system activated within three minutes, extinguishing the flames, which had begun climbing to the ceiling of the apartment.
