The Brief
- Firefighters battled a massive vehicle fire at the Hendrix Apartments in Brookhaven Friday night that required a second alarm to fully extinguish.
- Capt. Jaeson Daniels confirmed the parking deck collapsed “quite some time” after the fire was out, leaving the structure “highly unstable” and at risk of further falling.
- Officials believe the fire caused the collapse, but investigators cannot enter the garage to determine the cause of the blaze until structural engineers deem it safe.
BROOKHAVEN, Ga. – An apartment building’s garage has collapsed in Brookhaven just hours after multiple cars caught fire Friday night.
What we know:
The blaze was reported around 8:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Barone Avenue at the Hendrix Apartments. When fire officials arrived, they found the fire had already spread to several different cars within the garage.…