Apartment Building, Residential St. Louis, MO – Early morning apartment fire controlled by sprinkler system April 1, 2016 viking210 Residents at a Midtown apartment complex are evacuated overnight after a fire in one of the units. It happened around 12:50 a.m. at the North Sarah Apartments at C.D. Banks and Vandeventer. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. The building has three floors and has 19 units. Fire department spokesperson Captain Garon Mosby says the fire started in one of the bedrooms of that second floor apartment. There were two people, a man and a woman, in the unit at the time. The sprinkler system in the apartment did activate and that took out much of the fire. Crews were able to keep the fire contained to the bedroom of that one unit. The building where the fire happened is three floors and has 19 apartments. Most of the residents, roughly 30 people, were evacuated but some did stay inside a sheltered space. This was a first alarm fire meaning 30 firefighters responded. Captain Mosby says there is nothing suspicious about the fire. The preliminary cause is a candle that was left burning in the bedroom where the fire started
