However, the Vandalia Police Division arrived after firefighters reported juveniles surrounding an engine and multiple fights breaking out.
Vandalia officers requested assistance from area police departments to contain the crowd. Officers reported the group was mainly juveniles and some officers said they saw hundreds of people involved in the fight.
Vandalia police Sgt. Douglas Nagel said that police cruisers surrounded the parking lot and called for the crowd to disperse. When the crowd was not complying, he announced that the crowd should move to the front of the parking lot or face arrest.
The crowd complied and waited in an orderly fashion for rides, Nagel reported. A Regional Transit Authority bus arrived on the scene just after 9 p.m. to transport some of the people off the scene. The parking lot was cleared by 9:50 p.m.
Officers moved the crowd to the front of the building and the fights dispersed without officer involvement. There were no injuries reported and no one was arrested.
The Butler Twp. Police Department, the Huber Height Police Division, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Five River MetroParks police, Dayton Airport police and the Dayton Police Department all responded to the scene, police reports said.
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