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Maricopa fire crews responded to a possible house fire in the Acacia Crossing subdivision, which turned out to be little more than smoke coming from an air conditioning unit.

Crews responded at 9:30 a.m. to the call, discovering the residents safely evacuated.

After setting up their equipment and pulling a hose in for precautionary reasons, the crews discovered the alarm was caused by smoke coming in from the air conditioning unit.

"Sometimes the belts will smoke and that gets sucked into the home," said Brad Pitassi, MFD spokesman.

Photo by Michael K. Rich

• Great job MFD!!!! Our boys have to be stronger then we think, according to the 3rd paragraph, they pulled a house in for precautionary reasons. Thats gotta be tough. Does this site have an editor?? (code3)
• Great job MFD! Not so great job inMaricopa.com. A four-sentence story with a typo :( (TwoBigDawgs)
• inMaricopa, are you even somewhat aware of grammatical rules. One sentence does not make a paragraph..... (azdreamer2007)
• azdreamer2007 - One sentence does not make a paragraph? Not necessarily! (Bob J)
• I do'nt fined any thing wrung with the grammer. (mariCopan)
• look at that, a little hazing and wrong words are changed. Too bad it went public first. (code3)
• I find it strange that they blame it on a belt, some ac units are a motor inside of a squirrel cage (meaning direct drive no belt). O' well maybe they are right. (Robert B)
• No belts on any residential units I've worked on in Maricopa in the 3 years I've been working on them. Could be a motor that began to smoke or maybe squirrel cage that started rubbing on the housing... (RayDizzle34)