{"id":3603,"date":"2015-02-25T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T19:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2015-02-25T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:01:45","slug":"sprinklers-save-brick-restaurant-after-fire-breaks-out-in-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/sprinklers-save-brick-restaurant-after-fire-breaks-out-in-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprinklers Save Brick Restaurant After Fire Breaks Out in Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_3539.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>A fire broke out in one of the restrooms at a new Brick Township restaurant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Flaming Grille, a buffet-style restaurant in the Kennedy Mall shopping center, nearly lived up to its name Tuesday afternoon when a fire broke out about 4 p.m., officials said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The Breton Woods and Pioneer Hose fire companies responded to the scene and found the fire had already been put out by the restaurant&#8217;s sprinkler system, said Kevin Batzel, director of the Brick Township Bureau of Fire Prevention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Batzel said investigators determined the fire was started when smoking materials had been disposed of in the bathroom trash can.<\/p>\n<p>The activation of the sprinkler system helped avert a much larger fire, Batzel said. One sprinkler head activated during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an old building,&#8221; Batzel explained. &#8220;[The fire] would have traveled up pretty fast into that building.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were a small number of patrons in the restaurant at the time, Batzel said. All were evacuated. The bureau is following up today at the restaurant, which is back in operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it was not for the sprinkler system, that restaurant would be shut down,&#8221; said Batzel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/sprinklers-save-brick-restaurant-after-fire-breaks-out-in-bathroom\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out in one of the restrooms at a new Brick Township restaurant.&nbsp; The Flaming Grille, a buffet-style restaurant in the Kennedy Mall shopping center, nearly lived up to its name Tuesday afternoon when a fire broke out about 4 p.m., officials said.&nbsp; &nbsp;The Breton Woods and Pioneer Hose fire companies responded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,198,1017],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-fire","tag-flaming-grille"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_3539-0.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-W7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}