Fire-sprinkler system may have saved Valley Junction
January 4, 2010

A fire at a store called That Irish Shoppe in Valley Junction was kept under control by a sprinkler system on Sunday. Valley Junction is the original downtown area of West Des Moines, and its tightly-spaced buildings are at the same risk of rapidly-spreading fire as other downtown areas from the pre-automobile era. It happened in the Iowa towns of Maquoketa in January 2008, Lake Park in December 2008, and Paullina last month. Fire-suppression systems depend upon reliable municipal water supplies, which are often pressurized through a combination of elevated storage tanks and pressure-booster pump stations.

Did you know? Elevated storage tanks often include products like clearwell baffle curtains and duckbill check valves, both of which are used in systems to keep the water properly mixed and safely stored.

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