Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAccording to the Federal Aviation Administration, a ground stop was issued due to a “possible fire.”At approximately 3:30 p.m., Orlando International Airport Fire Rescue (ARFF) responded to a fire alarm call at the MCO Air Traffic Control Tower, MCO said.According to MCO, out of an abundance of caution, staff evacuated the tower.It was later determined that a sprinkler had activated inside the tower due to the cold weather.The FAA issued a ground stop, but flight operations have since returned to normal.The ground stop was lifted at 4:15 p.m. >> This is a developing story and will be updated as new information is released.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a ground stop was issued due to a “possible fire.”<\/p>\n
At approximately 3:30 p.m., Orlando International Airport Fire Rescue (ARFF) responded to a fire alarm call at the MCO Air Traffic Control Tower, MCO said.<\/p>\n
According to MCO, out of an abundance of caution, staff evacuated the tower.<\/p>\n
It was later determined that a sprinkler had activated inside the tower due to the cold weather.<\/p>\n
The FAA issued a ground stop, but flight operations have since returned to normal.<\/p>\n
The ground stop was lifted at 4:15 p.m. <\/p>\n
>> This is a developing story and will be updated as new information is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air traffic tower sprinkler activated due to cold weather causes temporary ground stop at MCO Updated: 4:39 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1282,20295,7810,7811,68108,6205,11885,139,141,24358,140,2451,68107,16490,9498,41887],"class_list":["post-140009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-chance","tag-departure","tag-faa","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-ground-stop","tag-mco","tag-new-information","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international","tag-orlando-news","tag-p-m","tag-possible-fire","tag-result","tag-story","tag-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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