A small fire broke out in a Storey kitchenette on Friday around 6:09 p.m. when someone storing boxes of party supplies turned on a stovetop burner by accident, causing some of the boxes to catch fire.

The sprinklers in the kitchenette, which doubles as a storage room, activated and put out much of the flame prior to the Palo Alto Fire Department’s arrival to the undergraduate residence on the lower Row.

PAFD fire captain Aaron Aguilar said the damage to the room was likely “a couple hundred dollars,” while the water damage to the floor and the basement below was likely “under $10,000.”

Student Housing officials responded and walked through Storey with firefighters about an hour after receiving the call.

About a dozen residents waited outside, many of them half-ready for junior formal, which was Friday night in San Francisco. Residents were allowed in the house one by one, emerging with shower supplies, curling irons and suits on hangers in preparation for the annual event.

-Elizabeth Titus