Apartment Building, Residential Wilmington, NC – No one hurt in Thanksgiving day apartment fire controlled by sprinkler system November 30, 2015 viking210 Fire officials were on the scene of an apartment fire in Wilmington on Thanksgiving Day. It happened on Litchfield Way on Thursday afternoon shortly before 2. Authorities say an apartment on the third floor caught fire while at least one person was home, but no one was hurt. That apartment is a total loss, while other nearby units suffered water damage from the sprinkler system. There is no word yet on what caused the fire.