SEATTLE — The Seattle Fire Department headquarters has been cleared for people to return to following a HAZMAT response to an “unknown odor.”
Crews initially responded to the headquarters on 2nd Ave. S in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood around 11 a.m.
Floors two, three and four were evacuated as a precaution.
Seattle Fire has not specified what kind of call they were responding to.
No one was injured.
The building was quickly cleared for re-entry.
It was determined that the source of the odor was a vehicle battery parked in the apparatus bay. Crews de-energized the battery.
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