March 2003
Amity Leather Building, West Bend
West Bend Fire Department
Crews arrived at the vacant Amity Leather Finishing
Plant to find a sprinkler head had activated in the boiler
room. A fire was smoldering between the ceiling and the roof
area by the smoke stack. The fire was slightly above the
sprinkler head, but it was hot enough to activate that head
and keep the fire from spreading further inside the boiler
room and the rest of the building interior. This fully sprinklered
building had been vacant for a year at the time of the alarm.
Had it not been for the sprinkler activating in this vacant
building the fire could have been much worse.
Ed Geidel, Fire Inspector, West Bend Fire Department
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