“I’m just very thankful that everyone is OK,” she said.
Pfaff said the sprinklers limited the fire damage within the one apartment.
He estimated that 2,000 gallons of water was released before the system could be shut down.
Students at Portland’s James Madison High School got quite a scare Monday morning.
But the two fires at Madison High on Monday weren’t the first to be set at the school recently.
“So far we have four fires that were set here. The 16th, the 17th and then two today,” said Tyler.
The principal also posted a letter to parents on the front page of the Madison High School website.
Haggerty said he was out on a coffee run for his family just before the fire was called in. Although he couldn’t join his family on time for Thanksgiving dinner, his wife, Corrine, brought the food to him and his crew at the scene. She handed him a heated container filled with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and corn. “I packed extra forks for the guys, just in case they’re hungry,” she said.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation late Thursday afternoon.
The plant was formerly operated by Jem Sanitation Corp., a company that had ties to organized crime, according to a 2011 report by the state Commission of Investigation.