Crews responded at 11 a.m. to a fire reported in a storage room at the Stars Rooftop and Grill Room, the Charleston Fire Department said in a Twitter post.
Sprinklers activated and contained the fire until the fire department arrived.
There were no injuries and firefighters reported minimal damage.
A grease fire at an apartment in Beaufort County has left one family displaced.
The fire broke out shortly before 8:30 p.m. on Friday at the Magnolia Park Apartments on Laurel Bay Road, according to the Burton Fire District.
The Burton Fire District, MCAS Fire Department, Beaufort County EMS and Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office all responded.
BFD said the apartment’s sprinkler system kicked on and extinguished the fire prior to firefighters’ arrival.
When firefighters did arrive on scene, they said they found a single sprinkler head that activated above a stove where the grease fire had erupted. Firefighters stopped the flow of water from the sprinkler head, which produces approximately 25 gallons of water a minute, until the complex’s maintenance personnel restored the system.
Due to smoke and water in the apartment, the family of six that lived there was displaced. Red Cross is now assisting the family.
Burton fire officials said that while the family of this apartment had to be temporarily relocated, the families in the other five apartments were able to return home.
“A fire doubles in size every 18-30 seconds, and even with a less than three-minute response by firefighters, without that sprinkler system and single sprinkler head, the fire would have devastated that apartment and caused damages throughout the building, possibly displacing all six families,” said Burton Fire District Community Support Officer Capt. Daniel Byrne.
“A dryer in the athletic room at Hardeeville-Ridgeland Middle School caught fire,” the Jasper County School District said in a statement. “Our sprinkler system successfully extinguished the fire. Our teachers and staff followed our fire evacuation protocols and evacuated all students from Hardeeville Elementary School and Hardeeville-Ridgeland Middle School, safely and orderly, and all parents were informed immediately.”
The Hardeeville Fire Department responded around 12:52 p.m., Assistant Fire Chief Joey Rowell said. Rowell said the school had been evacuated quickly and everyone was outside and accounted for when firefighters arrived.
“The fire was in the rear of the school in the laundry area near the gymnasium,” Rowell said. “The dryer, which is a commercial dryer, had gotten too hot with some uniform equipment on the inside of it. The sprinklers in the school held the fire in check until firefighters could arrive and put out remaining hot spots. Without sprinklers, it could have gotten a lot worse with smoke.”
Rowell said the school had drainage systems in the floor of the laundry room area, which also helped. He said most of the damage was to the dryer and no damage estimate was immediately available.
“The fire department remained on scene until all systems could be returned to normal around 5 p.m.,” Rowell said. “This was good work by all, including the school district and the fire department.”
Crews were on the scene of a fire at a North Myrtle Beach resort Sunday morning.
City spokesperson Pat Dowling said firefighters were called to the Beach Cove Resort on 4800 South Ocean Boulevard for reports of the blaze.
Dowling also said the fire was confined to the third floor and the sprinkler system was activated.
No injuries were reported.
Chief Communications Officer of Spartanburg District 6 Cynthia Robinson says the school experienced a small office fire this evening near the school’s planetarium.
Robinson says the fire alarm and sprinkler system was activated in the area, at around 7:20 this evening with city and county fire officials quickly responding to the scene.
The fire has been contained to one area of the building, and clean up is currently underway, says Robinson.
She also says no one was in the building at the time of the fire.
School will be held on a regular schedule tomorrow.
Firefighters said they were dispatched to the gym around 7:20 a.m. for a fire alarm.
A caller said there was a fire in the electrical room, and the call was upgraded to a commercial structure fire.
First arriving units found light smoke and an activated sprinkler head in the electrical room.
Crews said the sprinkler extinguished the fire.
According to the department, the fire was likely caused by an electrical appliance failing, overheating and igniting.
There were no injuries reported.
The gym will be closed while the electrical equipment is replaced.
A fire at the Ingles on Calhoun Memorial Highway in Easley is under investigation.
It happened around 11:06 p.m. Friday. The Easley Fire Department said crews located a fire in the storage area near the bakery. The sprinkler system was actively working and no one was injured.
According to the fire department, this is the second incident at this store this week and the fire has been ruled suspicious.
The C&B Fire Department responded to the Halls Chophouse at Nexton after a call came in to Berkeley County Dispatch at approximately 4:40 a.m.
The C&B Fire Department said its first officers on the scene spotted smoke showing from the fire.
C&B Fire Chief Josh Woodall said the restaurant’s sprinkler system put out the small fire. No injuries were reported in the incident.
Owner Tommy Hall released a statement Thursday morning about the fire:
Early this morning while Halls Nexton was closed, fire crews responded to a small fire contained to the lounge on the first floor of our restaurant. Authorities will be looking into the cause over the next few days. We are thankful that no one was hurt and that there was minimal damage.
The Pine Ridge, Summerville and Dorchester County Fire Departments also responded.
According to CFD an automatic alarm alerted units to waterflow at the building. Units arrived shortly after 9:15 p.m. and found “water near the rear of the structure.”
Crews went inside and “discovered a vehicle that had caught fire that was extinguished by the building’s automatic sprinkler system.”
Fire Marshals are investigating the cause. No injures were reported.
FOX Carolina was tipped off to the scene just before 9 p.m. along White Horse Court, at the Builders FirstSource warehouse there. Our crews confirmed fire engines and personnel were handling the scene, noting it appeared that Gantt District Fire Department was the lead agency.
The department said crews found a fire inside the warehouse, but the sprinkler system inside kept it small. Crews were clearing out by 10 p.m. after tackling the blaze.
Gantt District FD said crews from Belmont, Parker, and South Greenville also responded.
