A three-alarm structure fire on Jacksonville's Northeast side is now under control, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.
JFRD tweeted around 4 a.m. that crews were responding to the 8400 block of New Kings Road on Wednesday morning to a commercial building that was on fire.
Crews were nearby and arrived within several minutes to find heavy smoke. They set up an attack to stop the fire, but it escalated quickly. JFRD says within 15 minutes, command pulled all the units out of the structure for their safety. That’s when they called the second alarm. Then a third alarm fire was called.
The fire took an hour and twenty minutes to get under control. 3JFRD says there were 30 engines on the scene, which is about 80 firefighters. The fire happened in a multi-use building including a trucking company, storage units, and other businesses.