Firefighters respond to electrical fire at WRCB transmitter site

Fire tile
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Emergency officials responded to a small electrical fire at 2306 Fairmount Pike, the transmitter site for WRCB-TV Channel 3, after 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Walden's Ridge Emergency Services found no signs of smoke or fire when they arrived on scene after they were notified by an automatic fire alarm.

Officials reported a heavy smell of burning wires. Firefighters used a thermal imaging camera to find a small fire in an exterior wall between the sheetrock and insulation.

The building is a non-manned building, and it only suffered minimum damage. No injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire was electrical.

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