Apartment Building, Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential, Residential High Rise Sprinklers save lives and property at high rise housing facility (New Bedford, MA) May 5, 2014 viking210 At about 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2, a fire broke out on the ninth floor of a housing complex which houses mostly elderly or disabled tenants. The fire was quickly extinguished by the facility’s fire sprinkler system, and there were no reported injuries.