June 6, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Andy Lyon, Public Information Officer 720.488.7221
Arapahoe County – A nearly completed commercial building in unincorporated Arapahoe County was the scene of a smoldering fire this morning. The 23,000 square foot building is located at 7841 South Wheeling Court and was scheduled to be completed next week. A worker reported finding the building full of smoke and South Metro Fire Rescue Units were dispatched at 7:00 a.m. arriving a little under six minutes later.
The fire was mostly confined to insulation, inside a wall on the second floor of the two-story building. Firefighters had to pull down the drywall to extinguish the fire but had good access as the back portion of the building is an open warehouse area and the involved wall was accessible from the warehouse. The building has fire sprinklers but the sprinkler system had not yet been activated.
Investigators believe the fire was started after hot “slag” from pipes being “sweated” during plumbing work yesterday, fell into a wall and smoldered over night. No one was injured. Over two dozen firefighters, including one unit from Parker Fire, worked several hours to make sure the fire was completely out and to ventilate the building.
Contact: Andy Lyon, Public Information Officer 720.488.7221
Arapahoe County – A nearly completed commercial building in unincorporated Arapahoe County was the scene of a smoldering fire this morning. The 23,000 square foot building is located at 7841 South Wheeling Court and was scheduled to be completed next week. A worker reported finding the building full of smoke and South Metro Fire Rescue Units were dispatched at 7:00 a.m. arriving a little under six minutes later.
The fire was mostly confined to insulation, inside a wall on the second floor of the two-story building. Firefighters had to pull down the drywall to extinguish the fire but had good access as the back portion of the building is an open warehouse area and the involved wall was accessible from the warehouse. The building has fire sprinklers but the sprinkler system had not yet been activated.
Investigators believe the fire was started after hot “slag” from pipes being “sweated” during plumbing work yesterday, fell into a wall and smoldered over night. No one was injured. Over two dozen firefighters, including one unit from Parker Fire, worked several hours to make sure the fire was completely out and to ventilate the building.
