The first floor of Trump International Hotel and Tower flooded Thursday morning after a pipe burst during a test of the buildings sprinkler system.

A spokesman for the 96-story River North skyscraper said the water has been turned off and crews are making repairs.

"A pipe burst near the west public parking entrance, which is separate from the main entrance of the building," said T. Colm O'Callaghan, vice president and managing director of the building. "Hotel and residential services have not been affected."

Just before 9:30 a.m., workers were seen scrambling to move certain items outside of the towers southwest entrance near Wabash Avenue as water poured through the ceiling and gushed down stairs.

The tower also flooded on Feb. 15 after a Chicago Fire Department standpipe was opened, causing an estimated $700,000 in damage.

Three men were charged with felony criminal damage to property: Carl Koenemann, 25, Benjamin Nitch, 25, and Daniel Maradei, 24. All three have pleaded not guilty to the charges and are due back in court July 31.

In that incident, elevator shafts flooded in a 10-minute torrent of water from the fifth-floor stairwell. Woodwork, marble flooring and electrical infrastructure was damaged, but the flooding did not shut down the hotel or private residences.

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Newly installed 20-foot-tall letters spelling out T-R-U-M-P are seen on the side of real estate billionaire Donald Trump's skyscraper in Chicago, Thursday, June 12, 2014. The letters have triggered a war of words between Trump and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.(AP Photo/Stacy Thacker)

It's too soon to tell whether cooler heads will prevail in the Donald Trump-Rahm Emanuel spat over the billionaire's name being prominently affixed to a Chicago skyscraper.

As for the tower's sprinkler heads, well, that's another story.

The first floor of the Trump International Hotel and Tower flooded Thursday morning after a test of the building's sprinkler system went awry, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The water poured through the ceiling near the 96-floor tower's southwest entrance and gushed down stairs around 9 a.m.

Crews were making repairs as of early Thursday afternoon, the paper reported.

The tower, located along the Chicago River, has made news in recent weeks over a sign bearing Trump's last name in 20-foot-tall letters affixed to the building's side. Emanuel has called the sign "architecturally tasteless," while Trump has deemed it a "world-class sign" that is a valuable addition to the Chicago skyline.

The tower also flooded on Feb. 15 after a standpipe installed by the Chicago Fire Department was opened, causing an estimated $700,000 in damage. Three men were charged with felony criminal damage to property in the case.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Plans for the new building include a new exterior, wiring and plumbing, sprinkler system and elevator.

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The downtown Maple Ridge apartment building that burned in December 2012 is about to be reborn and will be sporting a new look in a year, says the agent for the property.

Fire ripped through the top floor of the apartment building at 22355 McIntosh Ave. in the middle of that month and left dozens of people homeless before Christmas.

Since then, the building has remained burned out and boarded up. Thats all about to change.

So basically, its going to be a bright new building in there. It should stand out, said Rajinder Chhina, managing the rebuild project for building owner Parmjit Kaur Sandhu.

Chhina said removal of the exterior cladding should start in a few weeks. The dark red, stucco-like material will be replaced with Hardy board, cement-based panelling, in shades of light blue and yellow along with stone in some places.

Inside the 21-unit apartment block, the interior has been gutted to the studs, allowing new drywall. New wiring and plumbing, a new fire sprinkler system and a new elevator is also part of the project.

Chhina said building and demolition permits have already been secured. If everything goes well, we want to start in two weeks.

Other changes include removing some of the concrete walls at the front of the building and improving the entrance.

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In two separate bedrooms, two wooden beds with white coverlets and throw pillows sat beside velour-covered armchairs, dressers and a nightstand with a lamp.

Walls decorated with fake, tacky art, fluffy slippers and aluminum walkers in the identical rooms were ready, it seemed, for the occupants to return to bed.

Instead, two fully decked out firefighters deliberately set the rooms on fire to demonstrate the efficacy of sprinklers.

If you were the occupant in the left room with the sprinkler system, you got a little wet and smoky.

But, if you were on the right side of the partition, within two minutes way before firefighters could arrive you were dead.

Our goal is to have sprinklers for all vulnerable occupancies by 2019, said Samantha Hoffmann, public fire & safety officer with Barrie Fire & Emergency Service.

Midway through the exercise, firefighter Carrie Clarke-Weatherup said the non-sprinkled room had reached a temperature of approximately 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

At the three-minute mark, she estimated the room was approximately 1,000 degrees.

After the firefighters extinguished the blaze, the blackend wood furniture looked marblized, with both the bed and armchair were burned down to their charred metal springs.

The sprinklered room had a semi-burned but still recognizable armchair, and the furniture would need to be dried and cleaned only.

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DERRY The Derry Workout Club has closed after a sprinkler system burst twice within a span of several weeks and caused extensive damage to the property, according to club representatives.

Following the closure of the club at 35 Manchester Road, the signs have been removed and the building sits vacant.

The system first burst in April and then, after a number of repairs had been made, burst again last month, Ron Tringale, the clubs owner and president, wrote in a May 15 letter to club members.

The club was forced to close after the first incident in April flooded the facility. Crews logged long hours to fix the water damage caused by the sprinkler system, Tringale wrote. They repaired and replaced damaged walls, ceilings and flooring.

Then in mid-May, the same sprinkler system burst again, sending a chemical called glycol gushing throughout the front of the building, Tringale wrote. The chemical spread into the front entry way, sidewalk and parking lot.

Sadly, some of the newly finished drywall and ceiling did become damaged requiring them to be repaired once again, Tringale wrote.

The Workout Club has since closed and members are being allowed to use the Londonderry or Manchester facilities, a club representative said Tuesday. The Londonderry club is at 18 Orchard Drive and the Manchester facility is at 35 Hamel Drive.

As for the clubs future, the Workout Club is considering re-opening at another location in Derry, according to club representatives.

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A sprinkler system that burst a gasket in the Hillsborough County government building Sunday night had recently been inspected after a similar incident over the Memorial Day weekend.

The fire protection system leak caused extensive damage to the first and second floor of the Fred Karl County Center, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd., forcing the closure of the building to the public Monday and the relocation of 1,200 government employees. The leak knocked out running water to the building because the water sprayed and damaged a circuit board that controls the water pumps, said Tom Fass, director of real estate and facilities management for the county.

County employees continued to answer calls to central phone numbers, as well as emails.

The building will reopen Tuesday morning during regular hours, a news release said.

Fass said officials hope the board room is repaired on time for the commission meeting Wednesday and that the commissioners' offices and other areas of the first floor will be repaired by Wednesday evening.

Fass said the building's fire protection system had its five-year inspection about a month and a half ago by a contractor, Piper Fire Protection, which replaced some gaskets as part of the inspection. One of those replaced gaskets failed over Memorial Day weekend, causing roughly more than $200,000 in damage, Fass said. Because that leak happened over the long weekend, crews were able to make the needed repairs without any disruption to county business.

The damaged gasket was replaced and the remaining gaskets were inspected by Piper, which determined the system was safe, Fass said. Then about 7:30 p.m. another of the replaced gaskets failed, and this time the damage was more extensive, including the electrical circuit.

Fass said he had no estimate on the cost of the damage. Fass said the county is working with its insurance underwriter, AIG, on repairs.

Piper is now replacing all of the replaced gaskets, and an another firm is being brought in to review the system. Fass said he doesn't know if the first set of replaced gaskets were faulty or if the problem was in the installation. This is very unusual circumstances, he said. It's still too early to speculate what caused the failure. We know the gasket failed.

The leak damaged the county commissioner's board room and some commissioner offices and elevators that carry employees to the parking garage inside the building.

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