Hotel / Restaurant, Restaurant Sprinkler contains restaurant fire (Appleton, WI) November 1, 2013 viking210 A fire sprinkler kept a restaurant blaze at bay Thursday morning. At about 4:30 a.m., a fire alarm called firefighters to Pullmans restaurant in Appleton where they found smoke and a small fire in a storage room, Battalion Chief Darrel Baker, of the Appleton Fire Department, said. The fire appeared to have started in a bin of dirty uniforms, but the cause is unknown. The fire damage will not affect lunch service at the restaurant, which opens at 11 a.m., Pullmans general manager said.