Florida Airport Shut Down After Fire Erupts in Parking Garage

Videos shared to social media showed thick black smoke billowing from the garage.
Florida Airport Shut Down After Fire Erupts in Parking Garage
Jacksonville International Airport in Jacksonville, Fla., in March 2019. Google Street View
Bill Pan
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Florida’s Jacksonville International Airport temporarily closed on Friday afternoon after a fire broke out in the hourly parking garage.

“Due to a fire in the Hourly Garage, the airport is currently closed,” the airport wrote in a post on its official X account at around 12:45 p.m. It added that emergency responders were on the scene and that both inbound and outbound road access to the airport had been shut down.