“I was terrified,” said Jeffery Whitmore, who was checking in for a doctor’s appointment in the building. “I heard a loud bo-m and the building shook. I looked out and saw the parking garage had collapsed ... and we started to evacuate the building.”
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/accident/2023/09/12/industrial-accident-closes-ascension-st-vincents-er-in-jacksonville/70833265007/
"Ascension patients apprehensive."
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/09/13/patients-at-ascension-st-vincents-apprehensive-about-other-parking-garages-on-hospital-campus-following-collapse/
"100 cars will remain trapped."
"Here is what some in charge think will happen next."
"The hospital will hire engineers to determine if the garage and the two surrounding buildings are safe enough to enter. Until that happens, and the city signs off on it, they will remain condemned. So at this point, the 100-plus cars still remain in the partially collapsed garage."
"The city said the hospital is in charge removal of the vehicles and it’s not clear when that will happen or what company will remove them."
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/09/14/100-cars-will-remain-trapped-in-the-partially-collapsed-hospital-parking-garage-for-how-long-no-one-knows/
"Responsibility rests with the OWNER."
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/09/14/how-do-you-figure-out-how-a-hospital-parking-suddenly-collapsed-we-spoke-to-a-forensic-engineer-to-find-out/
"Many questions; few answers."
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2023/09/15/ascension-st-vincents-riverside-garage-collapse-latest-updates/70856694007/
"It was crazy."
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/09/12/part-of-parking-garage-collapses-at-ascension-st-vincents-riverside-hospital/
Ascension's Medxcel Facilities Management team takes a bow:
https://www.medxcel.com/about