A quickly spreading car fire damaged 10 cars in a parking garage at UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus on Wednesday afternoon.
Patrick L. Muldoon, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center, said Wednesday night there were no injuries, and staff and patients in the Ambulatory Care Center, which is attached to the garage, were briefly evacuated.
Mr. Muldoon said that around 4:30 p.m. a smoke alarm went off, and officials quickly located a car fire on the third floor of the garage off Lake Avenue. The fire spread to other cars, and smoke started to infiltrate the Ambulatory Care Center’s air handling unit. The air handling system shut down, and the building was evacuated, with staff and patients getting out safely, he said. The center is firewalled off from the garage, Mr. Muldoon said, and at no point was the center in danger.