The terminal at Charleston 's Yeager Airport
The Federal Aviation Administration
says the fire occurred Thursday in an equipment room next to the room where FAA
radar controllers handle flights.
The FAA says the tower manager
extinguished the fire. The facility's alarm alerted the fire department.
The terminal was cleared out for about
15 minutes and operations were back to normal by 3 p.m. FAA says one flight
departed while the tower was evacuated. An FAA air traffic control center in Indianapolis
The cause of the fire is under
investigation.
