COLUMBUS, Ind. — A fire broke out at the Cummins tech center in Columbus on Monday. According to a press release from the Columbus Fire Department, first responders were dispatched to the Cummins tech center located in the 1900 block of McKinley Avenue around 11:53 a.m. to investigate a report that indicated flames had cropped up inside the building. When crews arrived at the scene, they saw smoke emanating from the tech center's rooftop ventilation system. CFD reported that a full evacuation of the building was already underway when its units arrived at the scene. Soon after firefighters made it to the facility, members of the Cummins Emergency Response Team directed them to the area the blaze had first broken out in. The fire started in a test cell, and when first responders entered that cell, they had zero visibility and were met by high heat. Firefighters subsequently located the source of the blaze and extinguished the flames moments after entering the cell. Cummins employees told investigators that the fire started while they were testing a prototype truck that had 100 gallons of fuel in it. The fire was successfully confined to the test cell because technicians reported it to the Cummins emergency response and security teams as soon as they saw flames. After the emergency response team was notified, an evacuation of the building was initiated. Columbus Fire Department’s Truck 1 positions itself to assess for fire located above a Cummins tech center testing cell on Monday afternoon. // Photo courtesy of the Columbus Fire DepartmentColumbus Fire Department Apparatus stage outside the Cummins tech enter in Columbus, IN after a fire occurred in a test cell on Monday afternoon. // Photo courtesy of the Columbus Fire DepartmentFirefighters and Cummins ERTs conference during fire operations at Cummins tech center in Columbus, IN. // Photo courtesy of the Columbus Fire Department CFD reported that smoke and water damage were visible inside the test cell after the fire was extinguished. As of 4:23 p.m. Monday, officials did not know how much it would cost to fix the portions of the building that were impacted by the fire. Before they left the scene, first responders deployed air monitoring meters to confirm no hazardous gasses had leaked out of the test center during the fire. Once they verified that no hazardous gasses had leaked, firefighters told employees they could safely re-enter the building. CFD began to leave the scene around 1:10 p.m. — just over an hour after crews first made it to the scene. Officials reported that no civilians or firefighters were injured by the fire.