A smoky blaze that broke out inside the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s offices in King of Prussia early Tuesday, could keep workers out of the building for the immediate future.
The electrical fire began in a second floor utility room inside the District 6-0 building along Geerdes Boulevard in King of Prussia shortly around 3 a.m., said PennDOT spokesman Charlie Metzger Wednesday.
Originally, it appeared an employee was inside the building at a time, but Metzger said it turned out that worker responded after learning of the fire.
Luckily no one was hurt and King of Prussia firefighters contained the fire to the second-floor conduit. Fire crews brought in fans to clear out the smoke, which was heavy on the upper floors, said Montgomery County dispatchers.
Despite not being a huge fire, the damage was done. A main circuit popped and caused electricity to be cut to the entire building since the conduit runs from the basement to 4th floor, said Metzger.
Firefighters began to leave the scene around 5 a.m. as PennDOT tried to get everything back up and running as normal.
PennDOT fed auxiliary power to some critical areas -- the building houses PennDOT's traffic monitoring system -- but most of the building employees had to operate out of other PennDOT locations, said Metzger.
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Metzger said there is no time frame for when employees will return to the KOP offices.
The cause of the blaze remained under investigation Wednesday.
