Jacksonville Airport Parking Garage Fire Destroys 50 Cars (UPDATED PHOTOS)

With massive structural damage to the parking garage. This occurred Friday afternoon.
A massive fire in a parking garage at the Jacksonville airport forced evacuations, a closure of the airport, the loss of 50 cars, and structural damage to the building.
There is not yet confirmation of the make and model of the vehicle that started this horrible conflagration. Local authorities have not yet confirmed that the vehicle that started this fire was in fact an EV, but I have little doubt.
In a press conference, Mayor Donna Deegan said there were about 50 cars that were damaged from the fire that was still burning, but under control. Deegan also said the fire started on the second floor with one car and spread to other cars.
Fire chief Keith Powers is reported as stating that that there was a partial collapse on the second and third floors, then a secondary collapse about 30 minutes later, to which he added, “We’re not putting firefighters in there.”
Here is a picture of the original car spontaneously erupting in flames, with fire blasting sideways and igniting neighboring cars.

If my suspicions are correct, and this fire that caused parts of an airport parking garage to collapse was due to an EV runaway thermal, we need to get serious about prohibiting EVs from parking in multi-car garages.
No one would argue for the right to park a McVeigh-type fertilizer bomb in a parking garage, so why are we allowing unstable lithium car bombs into public garages?

Here is a link to the local news article and a few videos:

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2025/05/16/live-fire-breaks-out-in-airport-parking-garage/

 

Israel Bombs Yemen’s Capital Airport

Israel cripples Sana’a Airport in major strike on Houthis, fully disabling their terrorist base, after missile lands near Ben-Gurion Airport.
An Israeli airstrike left the main airport in Yemen’s capital, which serves as “a central hub for the Houthi terrorist regime,” fully disabled on Tuesday, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.
On Tuesday morning, the IDF issued a warning in Arabic for all individuals to immediately evacuate Sana’a International Airport and its surrounding areas. About one hour later, IDF fighter jets struck the airport and other infrastructure in Houthi-controlled Sana’a, Yemen.
The retaliatory strike comes as Israel and the United States continue attacks on Houthi terrorists, who continually shot ballistic missiles at Israel and attacked more than 100 international cargo ships, tankers, and naval vessels following Hamas’ October 7 assault on Israel.
The strike “dismantled Houthi terrorist infrastructure at the main airport in Sana’a fully disabling the airport,” according to the IDF. Flight runways, aircraft, and airport infrastructure were struck in the attack. According to the IDF, the airport “served as a central hub for the Houthi terrorist regime to transfer weapons and operatives” and was used for “terrorist purposes.”
“This underscores the Houthi terrorist regime’s brutal exploitation of civilian infrastructure for terrorist activity,” the IDF said in a statement, per Israel War Room.
The IDF said the strike on Sana’a Airport was a direct response to a missile fired by the Houthis that landed near Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, injuring six people and temporarily halting flights. The IDF said the missile was not intercepted due to a technical malfunction, noting that its systems typically maintain a 95% success rate against missiles launched from Yemen.
“Over the past year and a half, the Houthi terrorist regime has been operating under Iranian direction and funding, in order to target the State of Israel and its allies, undermine regional stability, and disrupt global freedom of navigation,” the IDF said. “The IDF is determined to continue operating, at any distance, against all threats posed to the citizens of the State of Israel.”
Following the strike, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that the Iranian regime that it will “bear direct responsibility for any attack by the Houthi tentacle against the State of Israel.”
The IDF also targeted Al Imran Concrete Plant north of Sana’a, which the IDF says the Houthis use to build underground tunnels and terror infrastructure, as well as several central power plants in the Sana’a area. According to the IDF, the Houthis exploit energy infrastructure for terrorist purposes.

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Houthi Missile Hits Near Israel’s Largest Airport

‘The Real Culprit Is Not Yemen. It’s Iran’
Ben Gurion International Airport in Central Israel
On Sunday morning, the Houthis in Yemen launched a missile targeting Israel’s largest airport, where hundreds of people waited to board planes out of Israel.
The missile was the fourth missile attack on Israel in 48 hours from the Houthis; the other three were intercepted.
“Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in a number of areas in Israel, a missile was launched from Yemen. Attempts were made to intercept the missile and the results of the interception are under review. Sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol,” Israel Defense Forces announced.
The missile exploded near the main international terminal of Ben Gurion airport. Three people were slightly injured. The missile impacted next to an access road outside the airport, with the crater measured to be 25 meters across and several meters deep, suggesting that it was likely equipped with a low-explosive warhead.
422 international flights were scheduled to leave Ben Gurion airport on Sunday, according to the Israel Airport Authority. Some flights were suspended.
Numerous airlines canceled their flights into Israel for the next 24 hours, including United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Canada, Japan’s Nippon Airways, Spain’s Air Europa, and British Airways.
Since the inauguration of President Trump, Israel has refrained from responding directly to the Houthi attacks, partly at his behest, but in the wake of the latest missile attack, Israeli officials are reportedly revising their perspective.
“Saudi Arabia and the US say Iran has smuggled weapons – including drones, and cruise and ballistic missiles – to the Houthis during Yemen’s civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo,” the BBC reported on March 25. “It says such missiles and drones have been used in attacks on Saudi Arabia, as well as its ally, the United Arab Emirates.
“The Houthis could not operate at this level without Iranian arms, training and intelligence,” Middle East specialist Dr Elisabeth Kendall of Cambridge University stated.
“Tehran has provided advanced drones, anti-ship cruise missiles, precision-strike ballistic missiles and medium-range missiles to the Houthis,” Reuters noted in January 2024, then quoted an Iranian insider confessing, “The Revolutionary Guards have been helping the Houthis with military training (on advanced weapons). A group of Houthi fighters were in Iran last month and were trained in an IRGC base in central Iran to get familiar with the new technology and the use of missiles.”

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