Potsdam Fire was dispatched on an alarm activation at 0828 hrs to Sisson Hall on the SUNY Potsdam campus. Upon arrival at 0831 hours, firefighters found smoke in the building from an unknown source. Firefighters determined that the smoke was coming from an area where maintenance staff had been cutting rebar with a torch on the first floor for renovations. Investigation found that a piece of slag had fallen through a hole in the floor into the storage room for the Campus Rescue Squad below. There was minor damage done to the building and several backboards suffered fire damage after being ignited by the hot slag.
Units:
Engine 48 (Fire Driver R. Pierce),
Rescue 14 (Lt. J. Robar)