DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A parking garage under construction in Downtown Dallas caught fire early Wednesday morning, forcing people out of an attached hotel.
Guests at the downtown Hampton Inn were on the streets for a little more than two hours while more than 100 firefighters fought the three-alarm fire.
“Flames were shooting up pretty high and to the street when we arrived,” said Jason Evans with the Dallas Fire Department. “But nonetheless, our firefighters were able to mount a quick defensive posture and get the flames under control.”
Evans said smoke from the garage triggered the hotel’s automatic alarms, but that the fire itself did not make it inside the hotel. He also said nobody was injured.
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The call came in just after 3:00 AM, but Evans said as of 5:00 AM, crews were still monitoring a crane inside the garage to make sure it didn’t collapse. He said the owner of the crane will have to inspect it to determine if it’s stable enough to go near.
“We don’t have any definitive information to say whether that crane’s stability was compromised by the fire,” Evans said early Wednesday morning. “But out of the abundance of precaution, we don’t want to have too many men and women down there just in case something does happen.”
