Fire at Downtown Building Causes Evacuation

A fire on 2nd avenue downtown has caused a building to be evacuated, officials said.

The fire was reported shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday morning at the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department's headquarters downtown on 2nd Avenue.

Fire officials said the fire originated in a mechanical room on the seventh floor of the building where smoke started from a burnt-out fan motor.

More than 70 firefighters and six fire trucks were on scene working to put out the fire. People inside working said they could smell the smoke from multiple floors away as it drifted through the air vents.

The Fire-Rescue Department originally request a second and third alarm response to the fire, though they later canceled that resaponse.

The people evacuated from the building are still waiting outside to be let back in.

The San Diego Police Department and the SDFRD are responding.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

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