NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION
Date: 8/3/16
Time: 6:51 p.m
Location / Address: Salisbury University Commons,1101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, Wicomico Co
Type of Incident: Fire
Description of Structure / Property: 3-story masonry mixed occupancy structure
Owner / Occupants: State of Maryland
Injuries or Deaths: None
Estimated $ Loss: Structure: $0 Contents: $5,000
Smoke Alarm Status: Present and activated
Fire Alarm / Sprinkler Status: Fire alarm present and activated / Sprinkler present and activated
Arrests(s): None
Primary Responding Fire Department: Salisbury
# of Alarms: 1 # Of Firefighters: 4
Time to Control: Upon arrival
Discovered By: Fire alarm system activation
Area of Origin: Food service area
Preliminary Cause: Accidental, spontaneous combustion of cleaning cloths that were recently laundered and placed inside a plastic trash bag.
Additional Information: Fire sprinkler system activated and extinguished the fire prior to the fire department arrival.
That's two fires in the last couple of months with the same origin. Those chemicals stay in the cleaning cloths even though they're laundered, and the vapors accumulate when they're stored in an airtight environment, waiting for an ignition temperature to be reached.
ReplyDelete" spontaneous combustion of cleaning cloths " Yeah right! You mean that is your response so you can close the case.
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