Nashville, TN, Parking Garage Partially Collapses During Fire

    June 10, 2025
    Hotel guests and others reported hearing explosions coming from the downtown Nashville parking deck.

    The sounds of explosions, a fire and a partial structure collapse.

    Nashville firefighters faced all of it early Tuesday at a parking garage near a library.

    District Chief Martin Hampton told WKRN that firefighters found multiple vehicles on fire on the fourth and fifth floors of the deck.

    Among the vehicles destroyed were street sweepers, ATVs owned by the city.

    A nearby hotel was evacuated as smoke penetrated the building. No injuries were reported.

    Explosions can be heard in footage taken by hotel guests.

    Authorities said the ramp from the third to fourth floor collapsed on top of vehicles, and the fifth floor of the parking deck fell onto the fourth floor.

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    Susan Nicol is the news editor for Firehouse.com. She is a life member and active with the Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance & Rescue Company, Oxford Fire Company and Brunswick Vol. Fire Co. Susie has been an EMT in Maryland since 1976. Susie is vice-president of the Frederick County Fire/Rescue Museum. She is on the executive committee of Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association. She also is part of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) Region II EMS Council. Susie is a board member of the American Trauma Society, Maryland Division. Prior to joining the Firehouse team, she was a staff writer for The Frederick News-Post, covering fire, law enforcement, court and legislative issues. 

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