A small appliance fire in a downtown Morgan Hill restaurant was extinguished by an automatic sprinkler system before firefighters arrived to the scene early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
About 5:14am Oct. 31, firefighters were dispatched to a fire at Odeum restaurant, 17500 Depot Street, according to Morgan Hill Fire Battalion Chief Jim Galassi.
“It was a small appliance fire,” Galassi said. “The sprinkler system did its job and had it knocked down by the time we got there.”
The restaurant and part of the adjacent building’s interior were “charred with smoke,” but there appeared to be little or no fire damage, Galassi added. The restaurant also suffered some water damage from the sprinkler system.
Nobody was inside the restaurant or the building at the time of the fire, and Galassi did not know how the appliance caught on fire.
Odeum was closed Oct. 31 for lunch. An employee inside the restaurant, where a cleaning crew was busy mopping and drying up the mess, said about 4pm that she did not know if Odeum would be open for dinner.
