Tag Archives: Afternoon (12pm-6pm)
Champaign, IL – Potentially dangerous laboratory fire held in check by sprinkler system
San Diego, CA – Sprinklers help contain blaze at senior residential high-rise; No injuries
Glen Ellyn, IL – Fire in maintenance building at golf course extinguished by sprinkler system
Red Wing, MN – Apartment fire on seventh floor extinguished by sprinkler system
Franklin, OH – Fire at low-income senior apartment building extinguished by sprinkler system
Branson, MO – Sprinkler system helps contain condominium fire
Harrisburg, PA – Single sprinkler keeps apartment fire from spreading
A single fire sprinkler kept a kitchen blaze from spreading through a Harrisburg apartment complex on Monday night, city fire Chief Brian Enterline said. Crews responded to a building fire call in the 200 block of Mary Street at about 5:08 p.m. and found smoke pouring from a second-floor apartment.
However, firefighters found that a fire sprinkler head, which activates when the temperature reaches 155 degrees, quickly extinguished the blaze and stopped it from spreading to adjoining apartments, Enterline said. No one was injured, and Enterline credited the sprinkler for preventing what he called “catastrophic consequences.”