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Apartment fire halted by fire sprinkler system (Oro Valley, AZ)

A fire that began on the third floor of an apartment building Wednesday night was brought under control by the unit’s fire sprinkler before fire crews arrived.
 
Golder Ranch Fire Chief Randy Karrer said, “It is incidents such as these that highlight the importance of sprinkler systems in multi-family dwellings. Without them, the fire could have quickly spread to other units, causing greater damage and an increased threat to lives of the residents.”

Single sprinkler extinguishes grease fire (Village of Oak Creek, AZ)

Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday, Sedona Fire District crewswere called … for a reported structure fire in a multi-unit apartmentbuilding. The first fire crews found the fire was extinguished by a single firesprinkler head that activated in the kitchen of a one-bedroom apartment.  “The fire damage would also have beensignificantly worse if not for the sprinklers,” according to SFD FireMarshal Gary J. Johnson.

Residential fire sprinklers make the difference in house fire (Tucson, AZ)

A Tucson family’s home was saved after their fire sprinkler system extinguished a fire. Drexel Heights Fire responded to the house fire around 3 Saturday afternoon. According to Tracy Koslowski with Drexel Heights Fire, the homeowners called 9-1-1 after finding their fire sprinkler system had extinguished the fire while they were away from the house. Koslowski said the family could have found the house in flames, had they not had a fire sprinkler system.

Hotel room fire extinguished by sprinkler system (Yuma, AZ)

Sprinklers put out a stove-top fire in a room at a Yuma hotel Saturday afternoon before firefighters arrived. Yuma Fire Department spokesman Mike Erfert said arriving YFD personnel found there had been a fire in a fourth-floor of the hotel and that the sprinkler head near the fire had activated and extinguished the fire. The fire was caused by a pan of oil left heating on the stove by the room’s occupant. Erfert said the fire damage was limited to the immediate area around and above the stove-top. There were no injuries.

Sprinkler system controls condo fire (Lake Havasu City, AZ)

Lake Havasu City Fire Department firefighters responded Wednesday to reports of black smoke coming from a second-story unit at a condominium complex. “Two sprinkler heads had cooled and knocked the fire down,” Battalion Chief Mike Quijada said. “The fire had started on an overstuffed chair, and we did find some drug paraphernalia.” “No one was injured, and the sprinkler system did its job,” Quijada said.