The incident prompted a brief evacuation of the Morimoto restaurant on the first floor as water cascaded down the outside of the building.
Fire officials said the fire was confined to the compost toter, which was located in a trash room, and damaged none of the upper floor residences.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
At around 2:30 a.m., firefighters responded to a resident’s report of a fire at home in the 9800 block of Avenida Ricardo.
Responding fire crews entered the structure as the home’s built-in sprinkler system was active and putting out much of the flames.
However, crews saw that the water from the system had soaked two guinea pigs and flooded their cage.
Crews rescued the two guinea pigs and helped safely remove two dogs from the home. The pets’ owners were not home at the time of the blaze.
Fire officials believe a lamp fell near the guinea pigs’ enclosure and ignited some hay next to it.
No animals or humans were injured in the fire, but the home suffered extensive water damage from the sprinkler system.
A fire alarm notified firefighters at 11 p.m. July 2 at Mat Masters, 1055 Paramount Parkway, Batavia, but it was extinguished by a sprinkler system, the release stated.
When firefighters arrived, however, the building had smoke and they upgraded the situation to a general alarm for a fire. Other responding agencies were St. Charles, Geneva, North Aurora and Fermilab, who assisted with overhaul and ventilation, the release stated.
Firefighters controlled the area within 20 minutes by 11:30 p.m., the release stated.
No one was injured and the cause of the fire is under investigation, officials said.
According to its website, www.matmastersil.com, the company offers floor mats, napkins, table cloths, towels, aprons, paper products, hand soaps, air fresheners and dust mops.
John Denormandie, owner of Mat Masters, said firefighters had to go through the building to make sure there were no hot spots, which can reignite the fire.
The company’s second shift of two employees had just left an hour before the fire alarm, Denormandie said.
“As of right now, I have no idea how it started,” Denormandie said. “There is no third shift.”
The first shift has seven employees, he said.
The business was operational by 4:30 a.m., he said.
“The first shift is in at 5:30 a.m., but they came in early at 4 a.m. to clean up,” Denormandie said. “We have the most amazing employees. … They showed up. How much more could I ask? They’re good people.”
Smoke poured through Waldwick Pizza, as well as the adjacent Waldwick Bar and Liquors, Waldwick Wash and Dry and Giant Farmers Market on Wyckoff Avenue.
Firefighters forced open the pizzeria’s rear door to get at the flames, which were tamped by sprinklers.
A second alarm brought additional manpower to the smoky blaze.
No injuries were reported.
Borough Police Officer Jake Wanamaker was on patrol when he heard the alarm, saw the fire and alerted emergency responders, Lt. Thomas Dowling said.
Authorities were investigating the cause, the lieutenant said.
“The Health Department also was notified and was conducting a follow-up investigation,” Dowling said.
Cleburne firefighters responded to an alarm call at 10:27 p.m. June 20 at Cleburne High School.
Upon arrival they discovered that training supplies stacked in a storage room had caught fire. Firefighters described the items as “football type rubber training pads.”
The sprinkler system had activated and extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived. Firefighters described the damage as minimal, limited to the rubber pads, though some water damage occurred, according to reports. The water damage, however, was limited to the school’s “inside rubber type football field,” according to reports.
School officials and construction personnel were on hand when firefighters arrived. Reports list no cause for the fire and no injuries were reported.
The hallway sustained minor fire and water damage. Firefighters are cleaning up water. No residents were displaced and no one was injured.
The fire is under investigation.
Authorities received a call at 12:25 a.m. of a fire at a pizzeria on Langelier Boulevard and Magloire Street, said police spokesperson Julien Lévesque.
The building’s sprinkler system put out the fire by the time firefighters arrived on site.
The back door of the business was smashed open and an accelerant material was found at the scene, said police.
There were no injuries or witnesses. The business was closed when the incident happened. Most of the damages were caused by the accumulated water from the sprinklers and not the fire.
There are no suspects at this time, said Lévesque.
The case is being investigated by the police’s arson unit. The site is closed off for investigation.
A call regarding a fire on the 22nd floor of the SkyHouse Raleigh apartment building located at 308 S. Blount St. came in at 12:37 a.m.
According to authorities, a fire broke out on the balcony of a 22nd-floor unit and the fire was hot enough to activate the sprinklers in that unit. The fire was extinguished by the sprinkler system.
There was minimal fire damage to the unit, but it did sustain water damage.
Apartments built after 2002 are required to have sprinkler systems.
Multiple people were evacuated while crews were handling the fire. Everyone was allowed back to their units except for the peron whose apartment was damaged.
Officials said they’re not sure what started the fire, but a Raleigh Fire Department incident report lists the fire’s cause as “accidental.”
The person who lived in the apartment refused treatment for injuries, according to the report.
It all started around 10:40 p.m., when an automatic fire alarm went off at the 34-guestroom hotel at 296 Ethan Allen Highway.
The Days Inn has a Ridgefield address, but Redding firefighters were first to respond.
While en route to the scene, dispatch informed them that smoke was coming from the hotel and had activated the sprinkler system.
A working fire was discovered in one of the rooms around 10:50 p.m., and mutual aid from Ridgefield was requested. Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department also responded.
Ridgefield sent two engines and an ambulance, said Ridgefield Fire Chief Jerry Myers.
West Redding Engine 1 stretched a single hose-line into the building and the fire was contained to the unit.
The fire was knocked down shortly after 11 p.m.
Firefighters shut off the hotel’s alarm and sprinkler systems, and started clearing the scene around 11:06 p.m.
There were no reported injuries.
Ridgefield and West Redding Fire Marshal Mickey Grasso is investigating the cause of the fire, but he could not be reached for comment Monday morning.
