FAYETTEVILLE — The Fayetteville Fire Department was called to put out a small fire in a suite at Bud Walton Arena prior to Saturday's game between Arkansas and Tennessee.
The fire caused the sprinkler system to douse seats in the northeast corner, in sections 122-126. Sources said the suite was one used by the family of Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson.
Eyewitnesses said they saw smoke and smelled burning in one of the suites.
A spokesman from Landmark, the company which the UA employs for security, said the situation is under control, but they are cleaning the areas affected by the water from the sprinklers.