Retail, Shopping Mall Strip mall fire contained by sprinkler system (San Jose, CA) August 31, 2012 viking210 Firefighters responded to a blaze at a strip mall. When firefighters arrived, they found the building’s sprinklers had been set off. Firefighters quickly extinguished the small amount of smoldering fire in the restaurant. Because the mall shares a common attic, “the whole strip mall could have been affected.”