Photos courtesy Madison Fire Department

Left: Fire damage from 2013 fire. Right: 2007 fire.

A Madison apartment complex avoided another major fire Saturday thanks to the sprinkler system that was installed when the apartments were rebuilt after a 2007 fire, officials said.

Crews were dispatched Friday to the Glacier Hills Apartment complex at 1218 McKenna Blvd. for a fire, according to a release.

When they arrived, crews found a small fire on a second-story balcony that was extinguished by a sprinkler head, officials said. The fire caused cosmetic damage to the exterior of the building, but no one was injured.

The fire was the result of improperly discarded smoking materials that started a Christmas tree on the balcony on fire, according to the release.

The installation of the sprinkler system helped the complex avoid a repeat of the July 2007 fire that caused $3.5 million in damage, officials said. The building was a total loss, all of the residents were displaced and one firefighter was injured in the first fire.

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SEAFORD, Del.-Several residents of Hampton Circle in Seaford say they'll be out on the streets Thursday morning after the sprinkler system drenched their building Tuesday night.

The Seaford fire department tells WBOC the fire alarm in the Hampton Circle apartment building went off and triggered the sprinkler system, sending water everywhere and residents outside.

The company that own Hampton Circle has arranged for residents to stay at the Days Inn in Seaford through Thursday morning but residents without renters insurance say they're not sure where they'll stay after that.

"After tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock we're gonna be on our own ya know, we're gonna have to find our own place to live," Annette Holden said.

Stanley Towers is one of the luckier residents. "My wife and I have insurance and we're blessed and we'll be staying here for the next week or so until we can get back in the building or until however long it takes."

But for others like Cindy Marsch, they say the two days at the Days Inn is not enough to figure out their next step. Marsch previously had renters insurance but gave up the policy when it got too expensive.

"I did until the end of last month," Marsch said. "Holidays and new prices and everybody going up on everything, I had to let it go."

WBOC reached out to the Hampton Circle apartment office but they say they cannot comment at this time.

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ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) A trendy, new, downtown St. Louis dine-in movie theater is shut down.

The sprinkler system is the adjacent parking garage froze and sprang a leak, the theater owner said; yet another casualty of last weeks sub-zero deep freeze.

TheMX Theatre on Washington Avenue just marked its first anniversary this weekwhile it was shut down.

A Fox 2 crew got inside Wednesday night. It sure seemed like people could be watching movies.

Still, it was closed for an eighth straight night.

What happened was some of the sprinkler pipes in the garage burst, which shut down the entire sprinkler system for the building, including the movie theater, said Amos Harris of Spinnaker-St. Louis, which owns the theater.

The actual water damage to the theater was minimal. A few well-placed trash cans caught any drips and spared the carpeting. There was a little bubbling paint and hard to see water damage to one screen.

But the theater cannot reopen until the sprinkler system is working again.

Ground floor restaurants like Pi-Pizza and Snarfs Sandwiches re-opened after just a few days. But the theater is on the second floorand the owner says that has apparently made the repair more challenging.

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A water main break outside a Mill Valley retirement community caused some street flooding that damaged about 10 parked cars early Monday morning, a fire official said.

Crews responded to a report of a medical emergency at The Redwoods at 40 Camino Alto at about 6 a.m. On their way there, they were alerted of a possible water main break at the facility unrelated to the medical issue, Mill Valley fire Battalion Chief Scott Barnes said.

Firefighters looking into the water main break discovered that a line that supplies the facilitys sprinkler system had ruptured, sending water into the street, he said.

Its a large main that encircles the facility, Barnes said.

The line is only connected to the sprinkler system, and the residents did not lose their normal water service, he said. Crews found the shutoff valve and stopped the flow of water to the line, but a pool about 18 inches deep had already formed on Camino Alto, Barnes said.

About 10 cars belonging to employees of The Redwoods that were parked along the street appear to have been damaged by water seeping into their interiors, the battalion chief said. He did not know the extent of the damage.

As soon as the water was shut down, we were able to clear some of the drains that were in the street, Barnes said.

After that, the water drained fairly quickly, he said. Two lanes of Camino Alto were shut down because of the flooding, but no buildings were evacuated and there was no water damage to the interior of The Redwoods, he said.

He said the rupture occurred in an area that is fenced off for construction, but that there was no construction activity under way at the time of the break, and the cause remains under investigation.

Marin Municipal Water District spokeswoman Libby Pischel said the line that broke is on private property and is not a water district pipe.

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