Apartment Building, Residential Wilmington, NC – Fire department credits sprinkler system with extinguishing apartment balcony fire December 4, 2017 viking210 A fire sprinkler was credited with confining a fire to a balcony, the Wilmington Fire Department said in a release. A fire was reported on the balcony at 4940 Pepys Lane shortly after midnight Friday, possibly caused by fireworks, the release said. A sprinkler, activated over the balcony, extinguishing the fire. “There were no injuries to any civilians or fire personnel reported,” the release said. “This one sprinkler head activation required less firefighters to be on scene mitigating a fire problem, saved a four-story, multi-family residential building and quite possibly saved human lives.”
