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Fire at Burger King prompts evacuation at Southwest Florida International Airport

A concourse at Southwest Florida International Airport was evacuated Friday morning after a fire started in one of the airport restaurants. The fire at Burger King in Concourse B started around 7:30 a.m. and led to people being evacuated as a precaution, as is standard in such situations, according to RSW. One plane was also […]

Rental cars destroyed in RSW fire to be turned into scrap metal

It’s been over a month since a huge fire damaged thousands of rental cars near the Southwest Florida International Airport, and now, the lot is finally being cleared. Workers from two different scrap metal companies are transporting the cars to their facilities. So far, more than half of the cars have been taken to Garden […]

Pilot recounts flying through smoke from fire that engulfed rental cars at RSW

The fire that burned thousands of rental cars at Southwest Florida International Airport on Friday captured everyone’s attention, its enormous plume of smoke visible from dozens of miles away. Now, imagine have to fly through it. WINK News report Dannielle Garcia was first on scene as the flames grew on Friday, and she spoke with […]