Hotel / Motel, Hotel / Restaurant Duluth, GA – Sprinkler system extinguishes overnight fire at Hilton Garden Inn March 9, 2015 viking210 A basket of rags caught fire in the kitchen of a Gwinnett County hotel Monday morning. The hotel’s sprinkler system extinguished the flames, which broke out at around 2:30 a.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn in the 2000 block of Sugarloaf Circle. Gwinnett County Fire Lt. Jerrod Barrett said the fire started in a basket of cooking oil rags. About 60 guests and hotel staff members were briefly evacuated from the building while firefighters investigated the source of the fire. Barrett said the guests were soon able to return to their rooms. Investigators believe the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion of the rags in their plastic cart.
Apartment Building, Residential Dartmouth, NS, Canada – Overnight fire on fourth story of apartment building extinguished by sprinkler system March 8, 2015 viking210 The blaze broke out at about 3:15 a.m. on the fourth storey of the building at 51 Joseph Young Street. The Halifax fire department said the blaze was mostly extinguished by the sprinkler system. One person was treated for smoke inhalation. A Metro Transit bus was brought to the scene for displaced residents to keep warm. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Other Business St. Cloud, MN – Sprinkler system controls fire at laundry business until crews arrive March 6, 2015 viking210 The St. Cloud Fire Department responded to a fire call at Ameripride early Friday morning. A fire was found in a pile of laundry. The fire was being controlled by the fire sprinkler system when crews arrived. A fire suppression systems alerted the department just after midnight at the textile rental services and supply company at 6500 Sauk View Drive, Battalion Chief Jerry Raymond said. Crews ventilated smoke from the building and extinguished the fire. Damage is estimated to be about $2,000 for the pile of linen and the smoke that filled the building. No one was in the building at the time and there were no injuries. The cause was determined to be accidental from overheating of a pile of cloths, according to the fire department. Crews were on the scene for about an hour and a half.
Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Denver, CO – Sprinkler System Helps Firefighters Douse Flames at Assisted Living Center March 5, 2015 viking210 The fire broke out Tuesday night in one room at the Brookdale Senior Assisted Living Center located at Colorado Avenue and South Quebec Way in Arapahoe County. Firefighters say the building’s sprinkler system helped them get ahead of the fire. One person was taken to the hospital because she fell while waiting outside but her injuries aren’t serious. Investigators say they know the fire was electrical but haven’t pinpointed the exact source.
Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Osoyoos, BC, Canada – Fire at retirement home doused by sprinkler system March 5, 2015 viking210 Residents of an Osoyoos retirement home will begin returning to their rooms today, following their evacuation Monday night because of a fire in the laundry room. The fire was doused by the building’s sprinkler system, and fire retardant was applied by Osoyoos Fire Department members, who reacted quickly to the alarm. The blaze erupted about 9:30 p.m. at Mariposa Village, apparently because of an overheated clothes dryer on the second floor of the care facility. Acting facility manager Jesse Sales said 26 residents were taken from their rooms and moved “behind the fire walls” as soon as the alarm was sounded. They were accommodated overnight in other rooms at the seniors’ home. One resident and one staff member were taken to South Okanagan Regional Hospital in Oliver Tuesday night. They were treated and released and were back “in a couple of hours,” Sales said. “They (the fire department) got here before I did,” said Sales, “and I was here in about 15 minutes.” Will McKay, managing partner of the Baybridge-Baltic ownership group, also had high praise for the volunteer fire department. “They were Johnny on the spot. … They did a wonderful job for us,” he said. Sales said most of the residents would be back in their rooms today. For any whose rooms are not ready for re-occupancy, alternative accommodation has been arranged, he said. The care facility is home to 109 residents, plus staff.
Other - Storage / Warehouse, Storage / Warehouse Nashua, NH – Truck fire inside warehouse held in check by sprinkler system March 4, 2015 viking210 Firefighters quickly extinguished a truck fire Monday night inside a three-story warehouse on Bridge Street, which houses a truck repair shop and kitchen cabinet outlet. The building’s sprinkler system kept the fire in check. Fire crews arrived just after 10:30 PM to find a fire in the engine compartment of a plow truck parked in the rear garage area. Firefighters forced their way through double overhead doors to put out the fire. Some of the firefighting operations were delayed as crews encountered broken hydrants due to plow operations and a buried water shut off, fire officials said.
Other Business Lexington, KY – Electrical fire in parking garage activates sprinkler system; No injuries or structural damage reported March 2, 2015 viking210 The government center at 200 East Main Street in downtown Lexington was closed Monday because of an electrical fire late Sunday night in an adjoining parking garage. The parking garage sprinkler system, which was triggered by the fire, helped to contain the blaze which blaze broke out about 11:30 p.m. Sunday in some wiring inside the parking garage. Firefighters had to turn off electricity in the parking garage, which also caused parts of the government center to lose power, city officials said. With the government building closed, some city employees will not work Monday, said Susan Straub, Mayor Jim Gray’s spokeswoman. The garage is between the Kentucky Theatre and the government building. Initial indications suggest that the parking garage sustained no structural damage, Straub said. The cause remains unknown, Straub said. Earlier Monday, officials said electrical current arced, and some insulation caught fire. The fire was quickly put out once electrical power in the garage was turned off, fire officials said.
Apartment Building, Residential Syracuse, NY – Sprinkler system helps contain off-campus apartment fire at Syracuse University March 2, 2015 viking210 A camp stove fire in an apartment on the corner of Euclid and Livingston avenues set off the sprinkler system in the apartment Sunday night. A senior in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications who asked not to be identified by name said he was experimenting with a new camp stove in preparation for a camping trip during Spring Break when the flame of the stove escalated beyond its intended height, setting off the sprinkler system. The fire, located in an apartment building at 320 Euclid Ave., was reported just after 9 p.m. Sunday night. The Syracuse Fire Department left the scene just before 9:50 p.m. The student, who lives on the third floor of the apartment building, said nothing was burnt. He said that when he saw the flame rise, he went to the bathroom sink and extinguished the flame, but the sprinkler system went off. Syracuse Fire Department District Chief Robert Whitehead said the sprinkler system did exactly what it was supposed to. There was still water in some light fixtures and some electricity was shut off in the building, but that “everything was handled,” he said. A National Grid van came to the scene around 9:30 p.m. and remained at the scene past 10 p.m. Chelcie Pellegrino, a senior communication and rhetorical studies major who lives in the apartment building, said she was inside when the fire started, but said she did not hear an alarm. Pellegrino said she heard fire trucks come to the scene and heard people running up the stairs of the building. She added that if she was not able to stay in her apartment tonight, she had friends who lived on Livingston.
Other Business Bend, OR – Sprinkler system keeps fire at welding shop from spreading March 2, 2015 viking210 A fire in a southeast Bend industrial park Thursday night caused $30,000 damage to a welding shop, but likely would have been far more severe and spread to adjoining businesses if a sprinkler system and fire alarm hadn’t kicked in, officials said. Firefighters responded around 9:40 p.m. to a fire alarm sounding at Wilson Warehouses, a multi-tenant industrial complex at 1310 SE Armour Road, said Deputy Fire Marshal Cindy Kettering. They arrived to find the fire in a welding shop, confined to a single tenant in Suites 13 and 14 of the building. Losses were estimated at $15,000 to the building and $15,000 to the contents. The fire was found to be accidental in nature, Kettering said later Friday, but an exact cause could not be determined. The fire official said damage to the business “would have been far more severe were it not for the fact that the building is equipped with a full fire sprinkler system,” which “held the fire in check until fire crews arrived” and finished putting it out. The sprinkler head activation also triggered the fire alarm, leading to a quicker dispatch of crews, Kettering said, noting that having occurred at night, it could have been “a considerable amount of time before the fire was discovered.” “Without a doubt, working fire sprinkler systems and fire alarm systems saved this business,” she said.
Hotel / Restaurant, Restaurant Dayton, OH – Sprinklers keep fire from spreading at Bravo! restaurant February 27, 2015 viking210 A fire damaged the kitchen at Bravo! by the Dayton Mall. Firefighters forced their way into the restaurant on Miamisburg Centerville Road in Miami Twp. around 1 a.m. No employees were present, but crews found smoke inside, according to Miami Valley Fire District Battalion Chief Steve Meadows. The sprinkler system kept the flames from spreading, but the fire did moderate to severe damage in the kitchen, Meadows said. Meadows also said the restaurant could be closed for a few days
