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		</div><h6><span style="color: #544444;"><strong>Huge fire at a Florida airport cripples rental fleets, destroying thousands 3,500 hire vehicles on Friday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544444;"><strong>The fire spread across 15 acres raging through the night to early Saturday, but nobody was hurt</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544444;"><strong>Blaze ripped through at a rental car overflow area near Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, in a southwest Florida, on Friday afternoon</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544444;"><strong>Another 3,850 vehicles were undamaged as firefighters contained the fire late Friday night </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544444;"><strong>Witnesses heard explosions and flames leaping high into the air at Southwest Florida International Airport</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544444;"><strong>Firefighters were able to contain the inferno with over 80 drops of water from two helicopters and firetrucks</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-343892" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/rental-cars-at-Southwest-Florida-International-Airport-in-Fort-Myers-1.jpg" alt="rental cars at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers 1" width="747" height="548" />Thousands of rental cars at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers caught fire and had to be extinguished using helicopters to dump water on the blaze that was finally contained early Saturday, leaving the burned shells</span></strong></h6>
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<div>More than 3,500 rental cars were damaged or destroyed in a huge fire that burned near a Florida airport on Friday.<br />
The blaze which spread across 15 acres in a grassy area used as an overflow lot by car rental companies at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers when thousands of vehicles caught fire.<br />
Nobody was hurt as the fire contained the fire late Friday night. Another 3,850 vehicles were undamaged.<br />
Firefighters managed to contain the blaze using helicopters to dump water on the flames that stretched across the lot late on Friday night.<br />
Witnesses said they heard multiple small explosions and flames leaping high into the air as the flames spread across the area.</div>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-343893" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Rental-cars-at-Southwest-Florida-International-Airport-in-Fort-Myers-2.jpg" alt="Rental cars at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers 2" width="740" height="551" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Over 3,500 rental cars were damaged or destroyed in the huge blaze at the RSW Airport car parking lot in Fort Myers, Florida on Friday. </span></strong><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Wit</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">nesses said they heard multiple small explosions and flames leaping high into the air as the flames spread across the airport parking lot </span></strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">By around 8pm, the fire appeared to be spreading with the flames getting higher even as two helicopters continued to drop water and firetrucks emptied their tanks in a bid to halt the spread of the blaze.<br />
Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said that &#8216;over 80 drops&#8217; were made over &#8216;this massive fire&#8217;.<span style="color: var(--color-text);"><br />
</span>It is thought the car rental parking lot was busier then usual due o the coronavirus lockdown as fewer customers had hired vehicles while most flights are suspended and travel restrictions in place.<br />
Photographs from the scene of<span style="color: var(--color-text);"> the inferno after it was extinguished showed rows or burnt out cars spread across the lot. However, a</span>nother 3,850 vehicles were undamaged.</p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-343896" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Rental-cars-at-Southwest-Florida-International-Airport-in-Fort-Myers-5.jpg" alt="Rental cars at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers 5" width="743" height="548" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">An aerial view of the parking lot shows the extent of the fire as thousands of vehicles burned simultaneously through the night. As many as 3,500 were damaged in the inferno </span></strong></h6>
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<h6><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-343899" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Rental-cars-at-Southwest-Florida-International-Airport-in-Fort-Myers-6.jpg" alt="Rental cars at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers 6" width="1367" height="718" />Photographs taken Saturday after the inferno was extinguished showed rows or burnt out rental fleets spread across the vast overflow lot on.</span></strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Two choppers were used to put out the flames. Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said that &#8216;over 80 drops&#8217; were made over &#8216;this massive fire&#8217;<br />
The fire was fully contained and extinguished Saturday morning as crews worked through the night Friday, putting out the flames to ensure it did not continue to spread or cause further damage.<br />
The surviving vehicles, belonging to the various rental car agencies that serve the airport, were undamaged and relocated.<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The Florida Forestry Service of Caloosahatchee, confirmed that authorities were called to put out the blaze at around 5pm, when around 20 vehicles were on fire.<br />
&#8216;By the time we had units on the scene, we had 100 cars [on fire]. We lost count after the hundreds,&#8217; Melinda Avni, Mitigation Specialist for the agency <a class="class" href="https://www.winknews.com/2020/04/04/fire-at-rsw-destroys-over-3500-rental-cars-port-authority-says/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">said</a>.<br />
Furthermore the <a href="https://eu.news-press.com/story/news/local/2020/04/04/fire-near-southwest-florida-international-airport-contained/2946972001/">vehicles were not occupied,</a> at the time.<br />
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the fire.On Saturday morning, the Forest Service returned to the scene to make sure the fire did not start again.<br />
Arlene Salac, a spokeswoman for the FAA, said the fire did not effect air traffic or operations at the airport.</p>
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Mega fire at a Florida airport, spread across 15 acres, destroying more than 3,500 hire cars – No one was hurt as firefighters contain fire and save 3,850 other vehicles
