Apartment Building, Residential Sprinklers control apartment fire above restaurant (Media, PA) March 8, 2012 viking210 Lower Merion Chief Fire Officer Charles McGarvey said the resident of the apartment had left a pot on the stove then gone out. The sprinkler activated and kept the fire in check until firefighters arrived.”I am convinced if it had not been for those sprinklers, we’d still be there,” McGarvey said Wednesday morning.