Sprinklers Save Home From Dangerous Fire
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Updated: 10:57 PM Aug 27, 2010
Sprinklers Save Home From Dangerous Fire
Colorado Springs firefighters are saying a home sprinkler system worked perfectly to save an entire complex from going up in flames.
Posted: 8:32 PM Aug 27, 2010
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Colorado Springs firefighters are saying a home sprinkler system worked perfectly to save an entire complex from going up in flames.

It happened at the MacKenzie Place Retirement Campus near the corner of Union and Fillmore early Friday afternoon.

Springs fire officials say the family moving in put a box on top of the stove, and accidentally bumped the stove setting to 'on'. The box caught fire, the flames went up the stove, to cabinets, and rolled along the ceiling before setting off a sprinkler.

Lt. Robert Coffey with the Colorado Springs Fire Department says, "we could have had really truly devastating results as a result of not having a sprinklers in place”. He says things could have easily been much worse, if not for the quick-acting system.
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