Manufacturing, Manufacturing Plant Vinton, VA – Sprinkler system halts fire in maintenance closet at fabric manufactuer February 12, 2017 viking210 Firefighters responded to a small fire at Precision Fabrics in Vinton on Saturday night. The fire caused no injuries and had been extinguished by a sprinkler system by the time units arrived, said Lt. Richard Williams of Roanoke County Fire & Rescue. The incident, which occurred at about 10 p.m., didn’t damage the facility at 323 W. Virginia Ave., he said. “It was like a plastic bucket of materials that caught on fire, not the actual structure,” he said. The fire occurred in a maintenance closet in an outlying part of the facility, he said. Fire units from Roanoke, Roanoke County and Vinton responded to the incident.
