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Concord, NH – Fire at 167 year old farmhouse controlled with help from sprinkler system
The chief added: “This building is 167 years old. It’s a lot of very old and dry timber.”
In the dark of night, when temperatures plunged as low as 10 degrees, firefighters tore into the walls to ensure the flames would have no escape. This environment – coupled with the hazard of the old building – necessitated backup from surrounding towns to relieve the responders who were exhausted from heavy physical labor, the chief said.
“It’s difficult to sustain hard work in temperature extremes,” Andrus said.
But relative to the size of the building, which stretches roughly 200 feet end to end, according to city assessing records, the fire was contained to a small portion.
Deputy Fire Chief Sean Toomey credited the aggressive response and the building’s sprinkler system with averting “a potentially catastrophic fire.”
“Sprinklers don’t cover all of the spaces in a building,” Toomey said. “In this case, it took a considerable amount of effort to stop the fire from spreading through the voids and save the building.”
No one was injured, the chief said, but the fire caused “heavy damage to two units” of the complex, which has white clapboards and a green roof and is located behind the Dunkin’ Donuts on Manchester Street.
The Red Cross said it was assisting 23 adults and four children as a result of the fire. It was the second house fire in a week in the city that prompted assistance from the Red Cross.
“They met at the Red Cross Regional Headquarters in Concord, N.H., to stay warm while they were assisted,” the nonprofit wrote in a statement. “Local firefighters were on site to assist as well.”
The building – assessed at $775,000 – has been owned by Farmhouse Apartments LLC since 2008, according to city assessing records.
A man who answered a phone associated with the company’s owner, Matthew LoGuidice, said he wouldn’t be available to speak about the incident.
“I’ve got nothing to tell you at this time,” said the man, who also said he was not LoGuidice.
The Red Cross didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking more information on the displaced residents.
Aurora, IL (No Media Coverage) – Kitchen fire at restaurant fully extinguished by one sprinkler head
FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED – NO MEDIA COVERAGE *** At 3:12 a.m. on 3-9-17 the Aurora Fire Department responded to an activated fire alarm at 85 Executive Drive on the city’s far eastside.
A total of 10 firefighters were on scene and there were no injuries to civilians or firefighters.
The total estimated dollar loss is $10,000. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Victoria, BC, Canada – Sprinkler system contains apartment fire as RCMP officers help residents evacuate
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St. Charles, MO – Overnight restaurant fire controlled with help from sprinkler system
Gardiner, ME – Fire Chief credits sprinkler system with saving lives and property in apartment blaze
“At the press conference after the 2015 debacle, I said had that building had a sprinkler system, there would have been no press conference,” he said.
Nearly eight months before the 2015 fire, Royce Watson bought the building where the fire occurred Tuesday.
“It was a distressed property,” Watson said, “and it had a fairly good price, so that enabled me to update the sprinkler and fire alarm systems.”
The building has four retail units on the ground floor and eight apartments on the upper two floors.
Because the building already had a sprinkler system, he said, he had to either make it operational or remove it. He opted to fix it.
The apartment where the fire broke out sustained some smoke damage and the stove will have to be replaced, he said.
Watson, whose company, Wilcris LLC, owns other rental properties in the region, said the water from the sprinkler went into the unit below — his office — soaking his computer and some paperwork and bills on his desk.
While he said tenants share the responsibility for safety, he said he’s glad the system saved the building and that everyone is OK.
“I can’t thank him enough for his efforts on the sprinkler system,” Nelson said. “That saved the block.”
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