ILLINOIS - The contents of a garage and storage area in a mixed-use strip mall ignited and burned until a sprinkler operated and controlled the fire before firefighters arrived.
The building's contents were damaged, for an estimated loss of approximately $2,000. The building itself was undamaged. There were no injuries.Investigators determined that oily rags, left in a pile in the storage area by a business owner who had been refinishing a deck, spontaneously ignited and that the fire grew until it produced enough heat to activate the sprinkler.The single-story building, which measured 200 feet (61 meters) by 75 feet (23 meters), was constructed of concrete block walls over a concrete slab with a metal truss roof and a built-up roof deck covered by a rubber membrane. The mall had a wet-pipe sprinkler system connected directly to fire dispatch.
The building's contents were damaged, for an estimated loss of approximately $2,000. The building itself was undamaged. There were no injuries.
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