Air handler unit causes SLM call

<p dir="ltr"><span>A Saturday afternoon fire call at Spartan Light Metal Products turned out to be minor, according to Sparta Fire Chief Brian Adams.</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>Around 4:30 p.m., the SFD received a report of smoke in the offices at the facility.</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>"They had a problem with the air handler on the roof," he said. "It filled a couple of the offices with smoke. It was almost a non-event."</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>Adams said it was an electrical fire that put itself out in the steady rain.</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>"The motor had burned out," he said. "The air handler's purpose is to blow air into the building and that's where the smoke went.</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>"I'm very glad that's all it was."</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>Adams said firefighters were on scene for around 15 minutes. The Steeleville Fire Department was paged for mutual aid, but then later disregarded.</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>The fire call was the second at Spartan Light Metal in a little more than a week, after an Aug. 4 electrical fire - that started in a piece of equipment in the facility's foundry section - burned a 200-foot section of the roof.</span>

<p dir="ltr"><span>There were no injuries in that incident and all employees were evacuated safely.</span>