Authorities say a fire at a student living apartment complex began in a dryer.
Greenville Fire/ Rescue says the fire broke out at The Landing apartments just after 8 p.m. Monday night.
They say the sprinkler system helped reduce the amount of damage, but people in at least two apartment units are displaced.
No injuries were reported.
Fire crews arrived on the scene at 8:55pm.
Chesterfield Fire officials say it was a small kitchen fire that was extinguished by the apartment’s sprinkler system.
There were no reported injuries.
“The sprinkler system actually kept the fire in check,” he said. “If it wasn’t for the sprinkler system, the damage would have been far, far worse. … It would have most likely spread to the adjacent businesses.”
Fire crews responded at 8:22 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a fire alarm activation at the Twin City Town Center on Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis, according to Lewis County 911 records.
While firefighters were on the way, they started getting reports of water flowing out of the affected business, then smoke.
“Just prior to arriving they saw a column coming up which bumped it up to a second alarm response,” Cardinale said.
Fire crews from Napavine to Thurston County responded, he said, and entered the Kobo Teriyaki building to find an active fire. The sprinkler system had kept the fire controlled, and firefighters quickly extinguished what remained. Crews were on site until about 11:45 p.m.
This is a huge point,” Cardinale said.
While builders might cringe at the added cost of a fire suppression system, Cardinale said, it doesn’t cost as much as they might think, and can potentially save a building in the event of a fire.
“Actually on residential new construction it only adds an additional 50 cents per square foot for a home,” he said. “The advantages of a sprinkler system is over 90 percent of the time if an occupancy has a sprinkler system and the fire does occur it will keep the fire in its incipient stage, or small stage, until firefighters arrive.”
Kobo Teriyaki’s building was damaged by the fire and smoke, and neighboring Rue 21 and PetSense both suffered water damage.
Cardinale said investigators were on the scene Wednesday morning, and that the preliminary investigation points to the fire being electrical in nature.
The fire likely caused $30,000 to $50,000 in damage, he added.
Firefighters arrived on the scene and observed heavy smoke coming from a heating unit in Room 218. The room was unoccupied at the time and the sprinkler system within the room extinguished the fire before the firefighters arrived.
The entire building evacuated the premises after the building’s fire alarm went off. There are no reported injuries among the hotel guests, staff, or firefighters.
The MPFD escorted hotel guests to gather their belongings and all guests are being relocated to other properties.
The building’s lobby suffered water damage and Room 218 suffered extensive fire and smoke damage. The cause of the fire remains under investigation at this time.
The Mt Pleasant Fire Department was assisted by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Fire Department, the Shepherd Tri-Township Fire Department and Mobile Medical Response.
They tweeted about the fire at 5753 Kyle Parkway around 8:20 p.m. The area is just south of Bebee and Bunton Creek Road.
It said the fire set off the sprinkler system, which kept the fire from spreading. Crews arrived at the scene and put the fire out.
A fire was reported Sunday night in an Amazon warehouse on Boggy Creek Road, according to Orange County Fire Rescue.
OCFR first tweeted about the fire at around 9 p.m. indicating that the sprinklers within the warehouse were activated, and the building was evacuated, OCFR said.
Shortly after, OCFR followed up with a tweet saying the fire had been extinguished.
Fire crews were then working the scene salvaging Amazon goods.
The call came in at 7:46 p.m.
The first unit arrived on scene seven minutes later to find the small kitchen fire being controlled by the sprinkler system.
Firefighters quickly initiated an attack and made sure that the building was clear. The fire was completely extinguished at 8:09 p.m.
No one was hurt, and the residents are being assisted with lodging arrangement.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The post noted that Fire Chief Frank Owens said the fire was under control but that the building received a considerable amount of smoke.
“Ambulances are being staged but no injuries are reported at this time,” the post noted.
Walnut Ridge Mayor Charles Snapp said authorities got a call around 8:10 p.m. Friday from an employee at the nursing home about a dryer on fire.
Snapp said the sprinkler system was activated and put out the fire, which was contained to the laundry room.
No evacuation was needed and crews are working to clean up the area now, Snapp said.
Officials also said Walnut Ridge police is at the scene and that officials are asking people to avoid the area, if at all possible.
Fire crews were called to 650 W. Mckinley St. around 6:15 p.m. Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming from the kitchen of an apartment. The sprinkler system had activated and kept the fire from spreading. Another apartment received water damage from sprinklers activating.
The fire was under control within 15 minutes. Investigators are estimating $120,000 in damages.
No injuries were reported to either plant employees or to firefighters who were alerted to the scene following a 911 call about 6:30 p.m. Employees had evacuated the plant before the first firefighters arrived.
More than two dozen firefighters from Baldwin County Fire Rescue and Milledgeville Fire Rescue responded to the fire, which reportedly sent flames up to the ceiling beams of the plant’s smaller warehouse, located to the left front portion of the building that overlooks Ga. Route 22 near Britt Waters Road.
At least three different agencies were involved Tuesday in investigating the fire, including Baldwin County Fire Rescue, Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Emergency Response Team.
“The fire was contained to one section in the warehouse,” according to Baldwin County Fire Rescue Chief Steve Somers.
He said the fire was believed to have been caused by a reactive chemical. The name of the chemical had not been disclosed publicly as of Tuesday afternoon.
“We’ll have it in the report as soon as it is completed,” Somers said.
The fire chief said none of the plant’s employees or any of the firefighters were exposed to the chemical, however.
“Several other non-chemical containers also sustained heat damages from the fire,” Somers said. “Those products were not flammable. The fire just caused the substance in them to leak out.”
Somers said the only pallet of chemical substance that was what he described as hazardous was the one that caught fire.
The Milledgeville Zschimmer & Schwarz plant produces several different chemicals that are used for soap and other products.
“Most of the chemicals that they produce are not hazardous,” Somers said.
The fire spread smoke throughout much of the building, including the office area.
“There seems to be no other ignition source in that area, so that’s what we, and the chemist from the company, are going with at this time,” Somers said. “The chemist tried to explain to us that the product was not in a settled state. In fact, they were in the process of getting rid of it. They were not involved in getting rid of it when this happened, but they were working on the process of getting it out of the warehouse. But, it reacted before that could do something with it.”
Somers said the evacuation involved a skeleton crew of employees. All of them stayed on the front side of the building while county and city firefighters combed the building in search of hot spots.
The fire chief said a couple of ceiling beams were damaged due to the heat.
“The fire probable lasted just a few seconds, but it was hot enough to do that amount of damage in that short a period of time,” Somers said. “Immediately, it set off approximately 40 sprinkler heads in the warehouse.”
Somers said the plant’s offices sustained no real damages.
Firefighters were led by Baldwin County Fire Rescue Deputy Chief of Operations Philip Adams.
“Everybody did a great job of working together,” Somers said, referring to county and city firefighters. “Anytime we have a structure fire, we back each other up. The city actually got there a few seconds before we did. And they did an awesome job in figuring out what was going on so they could give us a heads-up when we got there.”
