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Two vehicles caught fire in a St. Pete parking garage on Monday morning. Image is courtesy of St. Pete Fire Rescue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A team of emergency crews rushed to a downtown St. Petersburg<\/a> parking garage early Monday morning to extinguish multiple burning vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to St. Pete Fire Rescue, thick smoke triggered automatic alarms and filled the upper levels of the structure before teams brought the flames under control.<\/p>\n St. Petersburg garage fire <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Emergency crews responded to an automatic fire alarm at 400 Central Ave. at approximately 7:07 a.m. Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n When firefighters arrived at the scene, they said they found thick smoke coming from the fourth floor of the parking garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crews located two burning vehicles on the fourth floor and hooked up a water supply to put out the flames. A total of 20 fire units and about 40 firefighters responded to the scene. \u00a0<\/p>\n Teams put out both vehicle fires, which stopped the flames from spreading to other areas and limited the damage to the immediate space.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officials reported that no firefighters or everyday people were hurt during the incident.<\/p>\n Central Avenue investigation <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Authorities have not yet revealed what sparked the initial flames inside the vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n The exact cause of the fire remains under active investigation by officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this story was gathered from St. Petersburg Fire Rescue, which explained how we got it through an official incident report detailing the emergency response.\u00a0<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Fire<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Two vehicles caught fire in a St. Pete parking garage on Monday morning. Image is courtesy of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[855,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-291763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fire","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}