A fire scare at Days Inn & Suites near Hector International Airport in Fargo.
A water heater malfunctioned and started on fire.
Guests were evacuated while fire crews were called to the hotel around 4 Sunday afternoon.
Days Inn operators tell us the sprinkler system put the fire out and it didn’t spread.
The hotel is without hot water until the water heater can be replaced.
That was expected to happen yet tonight.
Temple Fire Chief Mitch Randles said the fire suppression system at the plant contained the fire but firefighters stayed on scene to make sure it did not spread.
Randles could not say for sure how the fire started but he said no one was injured.
When firefighters got to the plant, two engine crews had to hook up their hoses inside the plant, Christian said. The first crew put out most of the fire, with the help of the plant’s sprinkler system and fire suppression system.
Firefighters still had to work for at least an hour to put out hot spots once the main fire was under control.
Christian said there are always concerns with fires at power plants, but putting out this one was a smooth operation.
“Once they had a fire in the system, they shut down the whole turbine and generator,” he said. “Everything in the system was shut down.”
Five engines, one ladder truck and one command vehicle went to the scene. Christian said the plant has four turbines in total, and the other three are still working.
The Panda Temple Power Plant is a clean natural gas-fueled, 758-megawatt combined-cycle facility, according to the company’s website. The plant can supply the power needs of up to 750,000 homes, the website says.
The department will investigate how the fire started.
On Sunday, just before 1 p.m., Ithaca Firefighters, along with Cornell University Environmental Health and Safety workers to the Alice Cook House, a residential dorm on University Avenue for a kitchen fire. The cause of the fire was found to be boxes left on the stove which ignited, setting the third-floor kitchen ablaze. Luckily, a working sprinkler system was in place and kept the fire at bay until firefighters were able to arrive on the scene.
According to the Aurora Fire Department, fire fighters were dispatched to the 1300 blk. of E. Indian Trl. at around 1:09 p.m.
Upon arrival, fire crews found a wood frame multi-unit assisted living apartment building with nothing showing from the exterior.
Further investigation found moderate smoke in the common hallway of the building.
The smoke was discovered to be coming from an end unit where a sprinkler head had activated and extinguished a fire that started in the living area.
Staff members attempted to put the fire out, but were unsuccessful.
All residents were able to evacuate when they heard the fire alarm; no injuries were reported to civilians or to fire fighters.
The cause of the fire is under investigation at this time.
Officials say the unit where the fire occurred sustained minor damage and is still habitable.
According to Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District Fire Marshal Eric Guevin, the call came in just about noon on July 9.
Upon the fire department’s arrival, they found the restaurant’s sprinkler system had been activated and took care of the fire and they went into the attic and back of house to do an overhaul to make sure the fire had not spread.
At this time there is no cause determined and it is unknown when they will be able to reopen. Guevin said the damage was contained to the back of the house.
Before she knew it, her apartment on the first floor of Regency Apartments at 505 Regency Drive off Cliffdale Road was engulfed in smoke.
“It scared the dickens out of me,” Spence said. “I had gone in the kitchen to warm me up something to eat. I looked up and saw the smoke coming out of the light fixture. It kept getting thicker and thicker. The firm alarm was going off, too, out there.”
She was among six residents living in four, first- and second-floor units in the complex off Cliffdale Road who were displaced after fires damaged four units.
“We gave them some funds for food and clothing because they needed to replace their clothing,” said Lori Nieves, a disaster team coordinator for the Red Cross.
Nieves said the apartment complex was not the only building damaged by lightning from Thursday’s storm. She said a family who lives in a home on Jenna Shane Drive in Fayetteville also were put up for the night by the Red Cross after their home was damaged by a lightning strike.
Spence and other residents and the manager of the complex say they are convinced that a lightning strike from a passing thunderstorm was the culprit.
“I guess the lightning or whatever (caused the fire),” she said. “The bedroom was damaged. The kitchen was damaged. They had to tear the ceilings out. The outside of the building had some damage where they had to take the vinyl siding off.”
Jamie Everitte, Fire and Life Safety Education officer with the Fayetteville Fire Department, said there were no injuries in the fire, and the official cause of the fires at the complex has not yet been listed. “The investigation is still ongoing,” he said.
He said six people were displaced. The dollar amount of the damage to the units has also hasn’t yet been determined, he said.
″(The units) were damaged by water from sprinkler heads and by smoke, so they are probably not all ready,” he said.
The Fayetteville Fire and Emergency Management Units responded to Regency Apartments on Regency Drive at 5:20 p.m. on Thursday.
The first unit reported smoke in several areas, and firefighters discovered smoke coming from between the first and second floors.
Residents were evacuated as emergency personnel began fighting the fire. A second fire was located in the laundry area of a separate apartment. That fire was controlled by the sprinkler system The Fayetteville Public Works Commission was asked to disconnect power to the units, and the fire was under control by 6:24 p.m.
Spence said she is grateful to the Red Cross for paying for three nights in hotel room for her, as well as food and clothing.
The apartment complex requires renter’s insurance, Spence said, which will be paying for a place for her to stay for several weeks while her unit is being repaired from the fire damage.
Angela Raupp, the manager of the complex, said she is also convinced that lightning cause the fires.
“That’s what we believe,” she said. ”(Spence) is not the only one who told me there was loud thunder before the fire started.”
She said in her 17 years of managing apartments she has never seen a fire caused by lightning damage an apartment building.
“We require residents get insurance in the event of something like this happening,” she said. “Thankfully, everybody was OK. Thankfully, this insurance requirement makes this a little easier on the residents.”
The incident happened just before 5:40 p.m. inside Macy’s, according to Crabtree Valley Mall spokesman Brian Asbill.
Asbill said “a small fire” broke out and caused the sprinkler system to deploy.
Raleigh fire officials said the blaze broke out in the upstairs men’s fitting room.
The sprinklers then extinguished the fire, Asbill said.
Raleigh fire officials said 25% of the building was damaged and that the cause was “incendiary,” although they did not explain further the fire’s cause.
Officials said 35 firefighters responded to the incident.
No one was injured.
Friday evening, crews were cleaning up merchandise damaged by water, Asbill said.
Just after 12 p.m. on Monday, firefighters were called to the Lake Hefner Townhomes, near Rockwell and Britton.
Firefighters say the flames triggered the sprinkler system, which knocked down most of the fire. Officials say four units were damaged during the fire, but those units were having electrical work done when the fire started.
Officials say one person was being treated for breathing issues.
An apartment’s kitchen caught fire in Palatine Monday, officials said.
Fire crews responded at approximately 12:07 p.m. to an activated fire alarm in an apartment building at 759 E. Pennsylavania Drive, according to a news release from the Palatine Fire Department.
After firefighters arrived on the scene, the resident said there was a kitchen fire in the unit that had been extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system, the release said. Crews went up to the third-floor apartment and confirmed that the sprinkler system had extinguished the fire and limited damage to the kitchen.
The fire department declared the fire under control at 12:16 p.m. and continued to salvage, overhaul and investigate afterward, according to the release.
Nobody was injured in the fire and its cause was ruled accidental in nature. Damage estimates weren’t available at the time of the release.
The fire began shortly after 5 p.m. due to a malfunctioning popcorn machine, which in turn set off the building’s sprinkler system, said Muskogee Fire Captain Brian Fuller.
“The system extinguished the fire and flooded the front part of the building there with water,” Fuller said. “We got the sprinkler head shut down, removed the smoke from the building and shut the power off to that area.”
Fuller estimated the theater would be shut down for “several days” while cleanup takes place.
Muskogee Emergency Medical Service Community Relations Coordinator Trish German said two people were transported from the scene in ambulances. Their conditions and the nature of their injuries remain unknown, German said.
