Grocery Store / Super Center, Retail Sprinkler system helps suppress grocery store fire (Windsor Heights, IA) July 11, 2012 viking210 Fire crews responded to a fire at a Hy-Vee grocery store at about 11:30 a.m. With the assistance of the store’s fire sprinklers, firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze by 12:30 p.m. No official cause for the start of the fire has been reported.
Primary / Secondary School Fire sprinklers control school fire (Des Moines, IA) April 30, 2012 viking210 A fire that broke out in a high school art room was suppressed by the building’s fire sprinkler system. According to Pleasant Hill Fire Department Chief Reylon Meeks, the fire was mostly extinguished before before fire crews arrived. Associate Superintendent Joe Horton said of the fire sprinkler system, “The upside is no kids, nobody in the building, nobody got hurt. It did exactly what you would want the sprinkler system to do.” No injuries were reported.
Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Sprinkler keeps apartment fire in check (Des Moines, IA) March 15, 2012 viking210 West Des Moines fire officials credit the sprinkler system at a retirement home for putting out a fire before it could spread. No one was injured in the fire.
Other - School / University, School / University Sprinkler system contains apartment fire at Loras College (Dubuque, IA) March 1, 2012 viking210 Authorities say a meth lab explosion caused a fire at a Loras Collage apartment building early Wednesday. The sprinkler system went off and damage was limited to the bathroom.
Primary / Secondary School, School / University Sprinkler system extinguished high school fire (Des Moines, IA) January 29, 2012 viking210 Des Moines firefighters say a small fire in a Des Moines high school was extinguished by the school’s sprinkler system.
Manufacturing, Manufacturing Plant Sprinkler System Put Out Fire at Manufacturing Plant (Mason City, IA) January 20, 2012 viking210 Authorities say a building fire sprinkler system had put out a fire before Mason City firefighters arrived.
