Crews were investigating a report of smoke in a campus building Saturday, an official said. Dane County dispatch said Madison firefighters responded to a report of smoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences building at 1210 W. Dayton St. at 11:42 a.m.
Division fire chief Ron Schwenn told News 3 there was a fire in the ventilation duct two floors below ground. He said the fire was in an air-handling unit for a computer system; the motor caught fire.
About a block away from Camp Randall on a Badger game day, Schwenn admits, is a particularly bad place for a fire to start.