Apartment Building, Residential Fire sprinklers limit fire at apartment building (Kalispell, MT) May 24, 2013 viking210 A fire that broke out in an apartment building was contained by the building’s fire sprinklers until fire crews arrived. Kalispell Fire Chief Dave Dedman credited the sprinklers with limiting what could have been a much more serious incident. No injuries were reported.
Hotel / Motel, Hotel / Restaurant Hotel utility room fire contained by sprinkler system (West Yellowstone, MT) August 9, 2012 viking210 “A water heater was the cause of the fire,” HBFD Assistant Fire Chief Shane Grube said. The pan on the bottom of a water heater in the hotel’s utility room got too close to the floor, which caused the fire. “The sprinklers began to discharge in the utility room and after some investigating, we found the burn pattern was underneath the water heater,” Waldron said. “The floor was burned completely down through. And it was the sprinkler system that really had done its job,” Grube said.
