St. Petersburg<\/a> parking garage early Monday morning to extinguish multiple burning vehicles.<\/p>\nAccording 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.<\/p>\n
When firefighters arrived at the scene, they said they found thick smoke coming from the fourth floor of the parking garage.<\/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. <\/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.<\/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.<\/p>\n
The exact cause of the fire remains under active investigation by officials.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Two vehicles caught fire in a St. Pete parking garage on Monday morning. No injuries were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[123464,43001,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-292339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-automatic-fire","tag-parking-garage","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292339","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=292339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}