In the Providence Opera House Providence RI September 23 1900 one sprinkler extinguished a blaze under the stage and rang an alarm at the same time with the result that the loss was so small no insurance claim was made.
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"Union Railway Company of Providence RI suffered a fire on Sunday evening March 2 1902"
The Union Railway Company of Providence RI suffered a fire on Sunday evening March 2 1902 A basement and one story brick barn 100x126 feet was newly equipped with Grinnell dry system sprinklers supplied by city water at 30 pounds pressure Fire started in an ordinary 20 foot box car located in the corner of the barn and when discovered _ the whole inside of the car was afire Twenty five sprinklers opened and confined the fire to the car in which it started the blaze being finally extinguished with chemicals by the public department There were two other cars on the same track and one on the next track to the burning car which were soon pulled out of danger so that it cannot be positively stated whether they would have been saved by sprinklers or not The opinion of the report however seems to be that they would have been and the action of sprinklers in this case was a distinct success
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