Driver remains at large after crashing into Miami Gardens storage facility that caught fire
The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a Miami Gardens storage facility over the weekend — resulting in a second alarm fire that damaged 20 storage units — remains at large, Miami Gardens police spokesperson Carolyn Frazer said on Monday via email.
“The driver fled the area on foot prior to police arrival,” she said.
There were no reported injuries and the cause of the fire is under investigation, the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department said in a news release sent Sunday morning.
At 11:23 p.m. Saturday, more than 30 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the fire at a Public Storage near Northwest 156th Street and Northwest 27th Avenue.
Once fire crews arrived, they found a burning vehicle that crashed against the front of the building and a blaze that quickly proliferated throughout the storage facility.
“The incident was upgraded to a second alarm fire due to the manpower required to remove the extensive amount of items located inside the affected storage units in order to attack and extinguish the fire and then monitor for additional hotspots,” the fire department noted.
Information regarding the vehicle and its driver was not immediately provided by authorities, but a video provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue shows a white vehicle being removed from the burned building.
This story was originally published January 2, 2022 at 5:39 PM.
