Video: 2-Alarm Fire Erupts on UT Community College Campus

A two-alarm fire erupted on a Utah community college campus and had crews from several departments responding Monday.

The blaze broke out at about 5:20 p.m. on the applied technology building at Salt Lake Community College in Taylorsville, according to an online update by the Unified Fire Authority, which had the first crews at the scene. Heavy smoke billowed from the structure, which had been under construction, and could be seen throughout the Salt Lake Valley. 

“Once we got on scene there was a lot of smoke," Ryan Love, a spokesman for the UFA, told KSL-TV.

Officials raised the call to a second alarm because of the complexity and size of the blaze, drawing firefighters from nearly every agency in the region. 

"Due to unique challenges with building construction and wind, crews quickly vacated the structure and fought the fire from a protected position from the exterior of the building," the Unified Fire Authority stated in an online update.

Crews worked throughout the night to extinguish hot spots throughout the building. No one was injured in the fire.