Posted on 06/25/2025 7:32:49 AM PDT by V_TWIN
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – More than a month after a devastating fire in the hourly parking garage at Jacksonville International Airport, the BMW believed to have sparked that fire has been removed from the garage.
A spokesperson with the Jacksonville Aviation Authority confirmed that a photo shared with News4JAX showing a fire-damaged vehicle being lowered by crane onto a tow truck is the BMW in question.
About 1,200 cars were parked in the garage at the time the fire started.
Nearly 50 cars were damaged, and hundreds of them had to be left there initially until drivers were contacted and told they could safely retrieve their vehicles.
The BMW will now be removed to a secure area and investigated by ATF agents and JAA’s insurance company as they work to determine the cause of the fire.
JAA officials estimated earlier this month that it could cost at least $38 million to repair the damage and those repairs could take at least 18 months.
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Sales are on fire for that hot new BMW.
That’ll buff right out!.................
Its like transgender violence
We can’t talk about it because it head-on conflicts what the Left is promoting
What am I missing? It took a month to remove the vehicle from the ramp? Was it because of damage to the structure or what?
They really need to STOP allowing EVs into confined volumes, or there will be a mass killing by one of them.
Imagine every multi-level parking lot in a country have this happen at once. The destruction would be amazing.
“Nobody seems to want to talk about this being an EV or not.”
Given the muffler and exhaust pipe visible in the picture, this one is clearly gasoline (and not hybrid, due to the size of the exhaust hardware)...but did it really start the fire?
Are you saying it was Billy Joel's BMW?
Imagine every multi-level parking lot in a country have this happen at once. The destruction would be amazing.
You don’t think Antifa doesn’t already know and plan for that?
Somehow I think the definition of a hot car is different now than when I was dreaming about 383 road runners and 6barrel cudas
“It is such a huge bang for the buck that we should consider using them in offensive warfare.”
exactly, EV pickups would be perfect for 3rd world “technicals” ...
That’s the first thing I wondered about.
Yeah, the parking garage was severely damaged along with 50 or so other cars that had to be removed.
The whole thing has been a total cluster from the beginning......and a federal investigation on top of everything else.....I guess that’s because it’s an international airport.
But like I said, if the vehicle that started it is an EV or not seems to be the last thing anybody wants to talk about.
Nice catch, I didn’t see that.
Most of that damage will buff right out.
Thanks.
He didn’t start the fire.
since they refuse to name the model of BMW that caught fire, you can be pretty sure it was an EV ... it’s like when the propaganda media just say “yutes” or “teens” we know EXACTLY what they really mean ...
I see an exhaust pipe, so it wasnt a pure EV. Possibly still a hybrid?
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