Fire investigators are looking into what started a fire in a motel room.
According to Robin McGill with the Corpus Christi Fire Department, the fire started around 5:30 a.m. on a bed at the Motel 6 on the 6300 block of Interstate 37 and Valero Way.
Luckily, the fire set off the sprinklers in the room. The sprinklers kept the fire contained to one room and put out the flames before they could spread to other rooms.
No one was injured.
Fire crews arrived to an apartment fire around 8 pm in the 800 block of Colcord.
The fire department tweeted the sprinkler system contained the fire to the room where it started.
“Fire sprinklers have been around for more than a century in public and commercial buildings,” said McKinney Fire Marshal Mike Smith. “That same lifesaving technology is just as effective when it comes to protecting your home.”
The NFPA reports that unattended cooking is a factor in one-third of home cooking fires and half of the associated deaths.
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.
Fire Chief Doug Page said the fire call came in at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. The alarm company reported a water flow alarm indicating the system had been activated.
Firefighters found the outside indicators show water was flowing in the system.
Page said the firemen made entry and found a single sprinkler and the fire it contained on a back stairway in the building going to the third floor.
“There were two, five-gallon buckets filled with kitchen rags on the stairwell and at this time we believe there was spontaneous combustion that started a fire. For restaurants this is a common finding which is why there are recommendations on how to store them,” said Page.
There was very little damage added the chief other than a burn on the landing and the plastic had melted.
“Without the sprinkler system going off the fire could have easily run the building before it was found. This is the second building in downtown where a sprinkler system contained a fire,” concluded the chief.
Firefighters say the fire started in the dishwasher and extended to the cabinet and countertop.
There was a single sprinkler head in the kitchen area that activated so there was a considerable amount of water in the apartment. 3″ of standing water was throughout the apartment before WFFD crews removed it.
The water affected the electrical service in the downstairs apartment and caused multiple breakers to trip.
The damage to the building is estimated at $10,000. The damage to the building contents is estimated at $5,000.
Maintenance was called to the scene to help with utility control and staff arrived on scene to help relocate students.
On June 1, 2019 at approximately 21:18 hours, Investigators from Fort Bend County Fire Marshal’s Office responded to an apartment fire located at 16731 Beechnut St. Houston TX 77083 (Greens at Brentford Apartments). Community Fire Department requested investigators from the Fort Bend County Fire Marshal’s Office respond. Upon arrival, investigators found that a small cooking fire had occurred in an apartment. One sprinkler head activated and extinguished the fire. The affected apartment had minor damage. No damage was reported to any other living units. No injuries were reported.
Fire units were dispatched to the Sunoco Packaging plant at 6501 Texas Central Parkway at 1:49 a.m. after someone in the plant pulled a manual alarm.
Occupants of the building were evacuated as the fire was observed in one of the processing machines.
All employees were accounted for and there were no injuries.
The automatic sprinkler system in the plant did operate.
The report indicated the 100,000 square feet of open space and 25-foot ceilings made ventilating the building a challenge.
The initial written fire report indicated the cause of the fire appeared to be a leak in piping carrying solvent to the printing machines with the actual ignition of the solvent being either heat from the operating equipment or a spark from the associated electronics.