Apartment Building, Residential Shreveport, LA – Sprinkler system activates in apartment fire caused by cigarette dropped down trash chute November 24, 2015 viking210 Residents of Fairmont Towers in the 700 block of Cotton Street were able to return to their apartments after smoke forced them from the building early Sunday morning. The fire was reported at approximately 8:21 Sunday morning after the sprinkler system in the apartment building went off. Firefighters arrived on the scene to find smoke through the building. Occupants of the downtown Shreveport apartment building were evacuated shortly after firefighters arrived. One person was treated on the scene from smoke inhalation. Firefighters believe the cause of the fire to be a cigarette dropped down the trash chute within the building. This has yet to be confirmed by investigators.
