Kirkwood Fire Department responded to a report of a kitchen fire at 225 Pullman Place Apt. #200. The call came in at 13:23:16. The resident was home at the time. Kirkwood Assistant Fire Chief Leo Meyer said, "There was a fire on a stove that was extending to the cabinets when the side wall sprinkler was [...]
On Saturday, February 24, 2018, there was a fire at the 14 story SLU Marquette Tower West located at 3530 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103. The fire originated in an electrical panel in a basement storage room. Two heads activated and put out the fire. STL City Fire Dept responded.
The city of Town & Country had a fire sprinkler save at Maryville University on Friday Jan. 19, 2018 at 23:08. The fire was at the Elm Apartments at Maryville University. Elm Apartments is a 15 unit apartment building. The fire was in a trash can in the bedroom. A smoke alarm sounded and notified [...]
Gateway Fire Protection responded to 5450 Brown Ave in the Union Seventy Complex in North St Louis. A boiler blew up at Balicor, which apparently recycles oil. Apparently, when the boiler blew, it pushed fire out into an area that had many chemicals. Four heads activated and put out the fire.
A fire sprinkler save at an off-site student housing at SIUE occurred on September 5, 2017. The Enclave apartment building in Edwardsville, Illinois was sprinklered with a 13R System by Boyer Fire Protection several years ago and they provide the system maintenance.
The Second Annual Home Fire Sprinkler Summit was held March 23, 2016 at the Springfield, MO Police & Fire Training Center. Springfield Fire Chief David Hall and Missouri Fire Sprinkler Coalition Chairman, Cape Girardeau Fire Chief, Rick Ennis welcomed the crowd of 70 people to the Summit. Jessica Sexton, Missouri Sprinkler Coalition PIO, gave an [...]
St. Louis Firefighters responded for an apartment fire on March 30, 2016. Arriving firefighters found a fire in a second floor apartment which had been extinguished by the automatic sprinkler system. The occupants had been burning candles on the bed in the master bedroom.
There was a sprinkler save June 25, 2015 at a Smoothie King in a strip shopping center located at 12599 Olive St. Rd. in Creve Coeur, MO. An electrical fixture in the bathroom ceiling caught fire and caught combustibles in the bathroom on fire. A 165 deg. fire sprinkler head fused and put the [...]
The Missouri Fire Sprinkler Coalition held their first annual Fire Sprinkler Summit at the Holiday Inn East in Columbia, Missouri on Tuesday March 10, 2015. Missouri is one of 22 states to have a Fire Sprinkler Coalition. Coalition Chairman, Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Rick Ennis, welcomed over 50 attendees to the inaugural summit and provided [...]
In St. Louis, MO on Saturday October 25, 2014, Fire Alarm dispatched a first alarm for a fire in a building at 812 South Vandeventer. When companies arrived, they found that the sprinkler system had extinguished a fire involving a piece of machinery in a warehouse. Capt. Mike Corson StLFD