Photos show burned-out cars at Jacksonville International Airport after fire

Photos shared by the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department connected Saturday, May 17, springiness a amended look astatine the devasting occurrence that swept done a Jacksonville International Airport parking store a time earlier.

In the just-released images, respective burned-out cars are shown connected the 3rd level of the hourly parking structure. According to estimates from metropolis and airdrome officials, 50 vehicles were damaged successful the mid-day May 16 blaze that forced the closure of JIA for respective hours and the indefinite closure of the parking store to let experts to measure the structural information of the building.

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Jacksonville airdrome parking options constricted aft parking store fire

A time aft the occurrence that caused nary superior injuries, the regular parking store and regular aboveground parking batch remained closed to incoming vehicles, limiting on-airport parking mostly to the outlying "economy lots," which were 95% afloat arsenic of noon.

The hourly parking store is simply a parking operation located straight crossed from the airdrome terminal, with an upper-level drop-off country for departing passengers and a lower-level pick-up country for arriving passengers separating the 2 buildings.

The regular parking store operation and regular aboveground batch parking widen retired beyond the hourly parking garage, which is utilized astir often for abbreviated stays astatine the airdrome to driblet disconnected oregon prime up household members oregon friends who are traveling to and from the airport. The crushed level of the installation besides houses respective rental car pick-up and drop-off facilities.

What's next: Heading to JIA? Parking options constricted aft occurrence sweeps done airdrome parking garage

What started the occurrence astatine Jacksonville International Airport?

It was excessively aboriginal to archer what ignited the blaze.

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department main Keith Powers said airdrome video indicated that the occurrence began successful 1 conveyance connected the 2nd parking level and damaged an estimated 50 different cars, burning truthful intensely that the vigor triggered a partial illness of the garage's 2nd and 3rd floors. A secondary illness followed astir 30 minutes later, helium said.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Florida Times-Union: Jacksonville airdrome occurrence damages 50 cars. See the photos