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Fire burns at Salk Hall

Students received the first ENS alert since April on Tuesday, but this time it wasn’t for a… Students received the first ENS alert since April on Tuesday, but this time it wasn’t for a bomb threat.

At 11:22 a.m. on Tuesday, a fire was reported on the fourth floor of Salk Hall, located next to the Petersen Events Center. The building houses the School of Pharmacy and School of Dental Medicine. Pitt and city police vehicles responded to the call, and the fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes, according to Pitt spokesman John Fedele.

Fedele said the cause of the fire was unknown, but arson investigators were on the scene after the fire was extinguished. Around 2 p.m., the building was being cleaned up and was expected to reopen at 5 p.m. Fedele also said that he did not know an estimated cost of the damage.

“The big news is everybody’s safe,” he said. “There were no known injuries.”

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