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Small fire at La Crosse Central traced to HVAC unit

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La Crosse fire crews were called to Central High School late Wednesday afternoon to respond to a fire alarm.

Battalion Chief Lance Tryggestad says firefighters went into the school, and encountered a light haze in the air. He says they found a room with an HVAC air-handling system inside, giving off heat.

Crews brought a hose line into the building and extinguished the fire in the HVAC unit. Tryggestad says the fire did not spread beyond that room.

La Crosse Central is evacuated because of a fire on Wednesday

No one at the school was injured. Tryggestad says there was a basketball tournament happening at Central at the time, with about 200 people who had to be evacuated.

While firefighters were inside the school, law enforcement was handling a two-car accident on Losey Boulevard in front of Central and the Village Shopping Center.

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