Tag Archives: Afternoon (12pm-6pm)

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler activates to control apartment hallway fire (Ypsilanti, MI)

The Ypsilanti Township Fire Department responded to anapartment hallway fire Wednesday afternoon. A light fixture in the hallway on the 4th floor of an apartment buildingin the 1500 block of East Clark Road caught fire Wednesday afternoon. The fire set off a sprinkler head located directly above it.

*** Blog Editor’s Note:  Tell us what you think of the coverage by annarbor.com and the comments from the Ypsilanti FD.  Of course, the sprinkler didn’t “cause” the damage, but rather it saved the apartment from experiencing a much larger fire, where the damage would have been much worse, and could have possibly caused injury or loss of life. ***

Office Building, Other Business

Sprinklers successful in controlling newspaper press room fire (Youngstown, OH)

An air-handling unit in The Vindicator’s press room caught fire shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The Youngstown Fire Department responded within minutes, but the majority of the fire had already been extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system, said Youngstown Fire Chief John O’Neill.
The fire was contained to a small area of the press room. No one was injured, and nearly all company operations returned to normal after an interruption of about an hour.

“The good things are no one was injured, we will print on time and the alarm and sprinkler systems worked as planned. The Youngstown Fire Department was a huge help and we heartily thank them,” said Mark A. Brown, general manager.

Hotel / Motel, Hotel / Restaurant, Residential

Sprinkler system aids firefighters at Golden Nugget Casino (Atlantic City, NJ)

A fire at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City closed the sauna Monday evening.  Firefighters were called to the casino about 5:30 p.m. for a reported fire and activated sprinkler, Chief Dennis Brooks said.
 
“The fire doesn’t appear to be suspicious,” Brooks said.  Preliminarily, it looks like an electrical fire, but is still under investigation, he said.

Apartment Building, Residential

Arson fire extinguished thanks to fire sprinklers (Pasadena, TX)

Several fires were intentionally set in the third floor of an apartment on May 29 in the afternoon. The building’s fire sprinkler system eliminated the flames prior to the arrival of fire crews, and a suspect is in custody. No one was injured by the fire.

According to Pasadena Fire Marshal David Brannon, “If that building wouldn’t have had a sprinkler system and it being on the third floor with the wind conditions the way they were that day, the fire would have been much greater and there would have been a much greater chance for loss of life and high dollar property loss. The sprinkler system definitely saved a lot of monetary damage as well as lives that day.”

Manufacturing, Manufacturing Plant

Factory fire eliminated thanks to fire sprinklers (West Chicago, IL)

Fire crews arrived to a fire reported at a factory that manufactures circuit boards to find most of the fire put out thanks to the building’s fire sprinklers.