Residents in an apartment have been displaced after a fire Sunday afternoon.
The Lexington Fire Dept. was called out to the 500 block of Angliana Ave. for a fire just after 6 p.m.
Officials say they found the fire in a dryer in a first-floor apartment.
It was contained to the laundry room and put out with a watering can and apartment sprinkler system.
No one was injured, but officials say the apartment occupants will be displaced.
Fire investigators are looking into the cause of the fire.
A business has some damage after an overnight fire in Lexington.
Flames broke out after 11 p.m. at the Aramark building on Versailles Road.
Crews arrived quickly and crawled under the smoke to put out the flames.
District Fire Chief Brian Dawson says the fire started in some clothing bins inside the building.
“The sprinkler heads in the building kept the fire in check, but it didn’t completely put the fire out,” Dawson said. “We had about 10 units responding to the fire and the Jonas Brothers’ concert slowed one of them down, but they were still on scene within five minutes of the initial fire.”
Dawson says the fire damaged some items in the building, but the structure is sound and no one was hurt.
One person was in the building when the fire started.
Investigators are still determining the origin and cause.
The Winchester Road plant makes Jif peanut butter.
Fire department officials tell us they responded shortly after 11 Monday morning for a reported hazmat incident at the plant.
When crews got there, they discovered there were two separate incidents going on. The first was a small ammonia leak, and the second was a fire at one of the roasters within the plant.
Additional fire units were called in to manage both incidents, which were in different parts of the building.
The sprinkler system activated and knocked down the bulk of the fire. The fire did extend outside the point of origin to the roof and at least one of the stacks. The fire has since been extinguished.
Fire officials say the ammonia leak was contained to the area of origin and the building has been ventilated.
We’re told all the workers at the plant got out, and no injuries were reported. Our crew at the scene says it looks like the workers have been allowed to go back inside the plant.
Company officials say they are working through their restart procedures.
“Webbed Sphere really appreciates the first responders who arrived so quickly to ensure everyone’s safety,” said Jon Huston, founder of Webbed Sphere. “Their professionalism and dedication are second to none.”
Members of the West Knox Volunteer Fire Department were alerted to the blaze by the building’s alarm system. They were assisted in their response by the Corbin Fire Department.
The fire started in an area of the building leased by a tenant of Webbed Sphere. It was contained quickly by the building’s fire suppression system. There was no structural damage and the fire only impacted a small, 20’x20’ area consisting of a workstation and some shelving.
“It was just a lot of smoke from all the products that caught fire,” said John Ward, CEO of Webbed Sphere. “The safety of our employees is the top priority. They did report for work normally (Tuesday), but were reassigned to areas not impacted by the smoke.”
The company expected a full return to normal operations Wednesday.
According to the Lexington Fire Department, crews responded to the call around 9:17 p.m. Saturday.
The department says when they arrived everyone had evacuated from the building…and they were able to put out the fire with the help of the buildings sprinkler system.
The Fire Department says one girl did suffer minor injuries but was treated at the scene.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
There were no life-threatening injuries, but the people transported had been subject to smoke inhalation, said Danville-Boyle County Emergency Management Director Mike Wilder. He said all the residents were evacuated with no major issues.
Danville Fire Department Chief Doug Simpson said the dispatch to a structural fire at 203 Bruce Court, the address of Landmark, came at 9:05 a.m. Sunday morning. A sprinkler in one of the back wings had gone off. “But the sprinkler system did do its job and knocked the fire down,” Simpson said. “There was just little flames when we got there, but most of the issues were dealing with smoke.”
He said the seven individuals transported were taken to the hospital via Emergency Management Services, and the fire department also received help from the Boyle County Fire Department, “Which we really appreciated.”
“All the first responders did a great job, worked as a team and the Landmark staff did a great job as well evacuating the residents,” Simpson said.
He said there was no structural damage, but there was a lot of smoke, and some damage was done to the origin of the fire area.
Wilder said when the call was first dispatched, he “cringed” because “It’s one of the horrors we have in the first responder business, something like that occurring,” like a fire at a nursing home, since it’s “such a task” to get everyone evacuated.
“It took me a little while to get myself together,” he said.
Luckily, though, everyone was evacuated safely, and he wanted to note that the there was also mutual aid from Garrard and Lincoln counties — one rescue unit from Garrard County and one from Lincoln County to help evacuate residents.
PRP Fire chief Doug Recktenwald said the sprinkler system put out the fire before the fire department arrived at the store on Dixie Highway, which is near Valley High School.
As heavy smoke filled the store and alarms sounded, everyone was safely evacuated from the store, according to a MetroSafe supervisor. No one was injured in the fire.
A MetroSafe supervisor said they received a report of a fire inside the store in the bedding section.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation by fire investigators. One Walmart shopper told WDRB News they saw smoke coming from the ceiling.
According to Lexington Fire Battalion Chief Jordan Saas, firefighters responded to the report of a fire at about noon at the facility. Crews found smoke coming from the roof on the backside of the building and once on top, fire was discovered in one of the hoppers.
The fire was extinguished using a hose line and the building’s sprinkler system, Saas said.
No injuries were reported.
As of 1 p.m., crews remained on the scene checking for hotspots but the scene was turned back over the company at about 1:15 p.m.
