{"id":2444922,"date":"2019-06-03T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/fire-crews-responded-to-smoke-in-aspen-airports-control-tower-cause-unknown\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:36:00","slug":"fire-crews-responded-to-smoke-in-aspen-airports-control-tower-cause-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/fire-crews-responded-to-smoke-in-aspen-airports-control-tower-cause-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews responded to smoke in Aspen airport\u2019s control tower; cause unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An electrical issue in the air traffic control tower Monday afternoon caused smoke to come out from behind the equipment but fire crews were not able to determine the cause of the smoke.<\/p>\n

A call to the emergency dispatch just before 2 p.m. reported smoke in the tower, and the Aspen Fire Department responded with three trucks and about 15 firefighters. No flames were reported.<\/p>\n

Neither the tower nor the terminal at Sardy Field had to be evacuated, and there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe controllers noticed some smoke coming out of their consoles, so they called the Fire Department, which is always a good thing to do,\u201d airport director John Kinney said Monday afternoon. \u201cThey came out and checked it out and gave it the all clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aspen Fire Chief Rick Balentine said they could not find the cause of the smoke but everything was back to normal after about 45 minutes from when the call came in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was coming behind from one of the panels. When I got there you could still smell the electrical smell, but the smoke had dissipated,\u201d Balentine said. \u201cAfter investigating we couldn\u2019t find cause, but told the controllers if it happens again to call 911.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a United flight coming from and then flying back to Denver that was delayed, but Kinney said it was not because of the report of smoke. He was told it was a crew staffing issue.<\/p>\n

Other agencies, including the Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Department, were on scene. In all, Balentine estimated there were about 25 officials who responded. The scene was cleared just after 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

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An electrical issue in the air traffic control tower Monday afternoon caused smoke to come out from behind the equipment but fire crews were not able to determine the cause of the smoke. A call to the emergency dispatch just before 2 p.m. reported smoke in the tower, and the Aspen Fire Department responded with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 04:40:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}