Apartment Building, Residential Stamford, CT – Fire started by unattended space heater contained by sprinkler system November 10, 2016 viking210 A fire caused by an unattended space heater in a Pequot Drive apartment early Friday afternoon was mostly contained by an overhead sprinkler system. The sprinkler system brought the fire completely under control by the time firefighters arrived at the Southwood Square Apartments about 2 p.m. Friday, fire Capt. Paul Newman said. Newman said no one was in the apartment at the time and there were no reported injuries. Newman said because of the sprinkler system, most of the damage was contained to the bedroom with smoke damage to a hallway. Chief Fire Marshall Charles Spaulding said just before the fire was reported, a man using a space heater in the apartment went to the grocery store. While he was gone, the space heater caught an adjacent chair on fire, Spaulding said. The man has declined help from the American Red Cross and Spaulding said he could be back into his apartment as early as Monday.
