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.
Videos circulating on social media showed thick black smoke billowing from the garage building as firefighters worked to contain the blaze.
Around 3 p.m., the airport provided an update stating that while the hourly garage remained closed, other parking areas such as the daily garage and economy lots had reopened….