A fire sprinkler successfully suppressed an apartment fire Tuesday afternoon in Battle Ground, minimizing potential damage.
Nobody was home when the fire broke out in a unit at Meadow View Apartments, said Clark County Fire & Rescue Division Chief Mike Jackson. Firefighters were called to 611 N.W. 20th Ave. at 2:49 p.m.
The oven had been left on the clean setting and ignited items on the stove, Jackson said.
“The fire was luckily controlled with a single sprinkler head before we got there,” he said.