Apartment Building, Residential Topeka, KS – Sprinkler system activates to help limit damage in apartment fire September 30, 2016 viking210 Topeka Fire Department crews put out a small trash fire early Tuesday at a downtown apartment building. An automatic alarm was activated shortly after 5 a.m. on the second floor of the Santa Fe Place Apartments, a five-story brick building at 600 S.E. Madison. Crews arrived to find a small fire on the second floor, where sprinklers had activated. Fire officials at the scene said there was no major damage associated with the fire, which was believed to have started as a result of improper disposal of smoking materials. However, water from the sprinkler system ran down the elevator shaft and into at least one apartment. It took about 30 minutes to get the sprinkler system shut off. No injuries were reported.
