Temple Firefighters fought two fires Saturday but a sprinkler system may have saved one of the buildings.

The first fire started around 8:00 Saturday morning after a woman smelled a burning smell as she was driving her car home. When she parked in her carport, she stepped out to check and saw fire and smoke coming from under the front of the car. The car and car port had major fire damages and the attic had minor damages.

Four crews responded and got the flames under control within 20 minutes. The fire caused $17,500 in damages and displaced the family of three who are now living with relatives. The fire was also ruled unintentional.

Crews also responded to another fire Saturday afternoon at the Lock Joint Tube manufacturing plant in Temple. When crews got there they found employees had already evacuated the building. When they went inside they found one fire sprinkler head flowing water close to machinery which had a small amount of fire underneath.

Crews put out the flames and credit the fire sprinkler system with keeping the fire from spreading. This fire was ruled unintentional as well and caused $5,000 in damages.

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UPDATE @ 10:30 a.m. Oct. 11

The truck that was destroyed was a sewer department truck, not a public works truck, and the incident happened at the division of sewer maintenance garage, not the public works facility, according to a city official.

UPDATE @ 8:20 p.m.:

The sprinkler system in the City of Dayton garage at the public works facility worked as designed in containing the vehicle fire to the one heavy-duty truck, Dayton Fire Chief and Director Jeffrey Payne said.

All fire crews had to do was open the garage doors and vent the building on Ottawa Street because the sprinkler system had knocked out the flames by the time firefighters arrived, he said. That kept damage to the building to a minimum -- there was the partial melting of a plastic skylight. The skylights are designed to melt under high heat, the chief said.

There were four or five other trucks parked near the burned vehicle that would have been heavily damaged had there been no sprinkler system, he said.

An investigator was called to the scene as a matter of standard department protocol, as Payne said it appears no one was in the building when the fire erupted under the truck's hood.

UPDATE @ 6:43 p.m.:

The heavy-duty truck that caught fire inside a City of Dayton garage was destroyed, a Dayton fire official said, noting the Department of Public Works vehicle was worth an estimated $40,000.

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MORRIS PLAINS A fire in a patient's bedroom at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was quickly extinguished by firefighters Wednesday evening.

Firefighters responded to the 450-bed hospital on Koch Avenue at 6:18 p.m. after receiving a report of a smoke condition in one of the second-floor bedroom's in the F-wing of the hospital, Mount Tabor Assistant Fire Chief Bryan Crawford said.

Upon arriving at the scene, firefighters were notified that it was a working room-and-contents fire involving a wardrobe and dresser, Tabor said. In a room-and-contents fire, the blaze hasn't spread to the actual structure of the building, he said.

All patients in the F-wing were relocated to other sections of the hospital during the incident, Crawford said. According to the Department of Human Services' website, the hospital currently provides transitional housing for 60 individuals.

Crawford said the sprinkler system was able to limit the spread of the fire to the room itself, but extinguishing the blaze required firefighters to use a high-rise hose pack connected to a second-floor water pipe. Within about 10 minutes of arriving on the scene, firefighters were able to extinguish the fire, he said.

One of the biggest challenges, Crawford said, was ventilating the building using the HVAC system because none of the windows opened.

No injuries were reported during the fire, he said.

The cause of the blaze is currently under investigation by the Department of Human Services police, Crawford said.

Besides Mount Tabor Volunteer Fire Department, the Greystone Fire Department, Morris Township Fairchild Fire Department and Cedar Knolls Fire Department, Rapid Intervention Crew responded to the scene. Two basic life support units from the Parsippany Volunteer Ambulance squad also responded to the scene, he said.

The hospital currently in operation bears the same name and operates on the same campus as the now-shuttered Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital that's slated for demolition later this month.

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The city of Glenwood Springs may have spent about $235,000 too much for fire protection and ventilation systems in its new $4 million downtown parking garage at Ninth and Cooper, according to a local engineer and architect who have been researching the matter.

Barney Mulligan, a retired engineer who specialized in fire protection systems for more than 50 years including as senior engineer for the Denver Fire Department; and longtime local architect Dean Moffatt, say the sprinkler, ventilation and related alarm systems in the partially enclosed structure alone are overkill.

A stand-alone, 4-inch dry standpipe system that was also included as part of the construction in 2012-13, at an estimated cost of around $50,000, is way over the top according to applicable fire code requirements, they claim.

City Manager Jeff Hecksel said he is having Glenwood Springs Fire Department officials review the issue, which was already investigated earlier this year after Mulligan and Moffatt first raised their concerns.

Deputy Fire Marshal Ron Biggers said at the time that, based on the architectural designs and because more than half of the parking garages lower level is underground, it is considered an enclosed structure, and that the fire protections are necessary.

But, Mulligan said in an interview following his and Moffatts appearance before City Council last week, The standpipe in this parking structure is the most ridiculous of the four non-required systems.

The sole purpose of standpipes is to expedite the application of water to fires on the upper levels of mid- and high-rise buildings, said Mulligan, who said he worked on the design of several such structures in Denver and in Alaska during his career.

Standpipe systems allow firefighters to pump water from a fire engine or hydrant into the built-in piping system so that water can travel quickly to the upper reaches and remote parts of a building, he explained.

Mulligan cites National Fire Protection Association requirements calling for standpipe systems to be installed in structures exceeding 50 feet in height. The two-level parking garage rises to a maximum height of 17 feet, Mulligan noted.

The lowest height in any type of structure requiring a standpipe starts at 30 feet, he said. This street-level standpipe system will never be used and should be removed.

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