Local officials raced to Glidden Hall Friday night after receiving reports of a fire alarm but soon found they weren't needed.
The Athens Fire Department received a call at 10:39 p.m. last night and had firefighters on the scene at 10:42 p.m.
But when local officials arrived on the scene, they did not find a fire — just smoke from the ceramic kilns at Seigfred Hall.
"From what we understand, some of the smoke from the kilns blew near Glidden Hall, and someone smelled it and thought there was a fire, so they pulled the fire alarm," said Captain Bruce Smith of the Athens Fire Department.
This was the second time the fire department had been called to a campus building Friday; their first response had been to flames pouring out of the roof from the Research and Technology Building early Friday morning. Officials are investigating that fire as arson.
The Glidden case is closed, and there is no need for investigation, Smith said.
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