ATLANTA — Atlanta Fire Rescue crews are responding after a truck hit the roof of an apartment complex's parking garage Friday afternoon.
Officials said the incident happened at The Alexander at the District at 1750 Commerce Dr. NW, not far from Atlantic Station just before 3:30 p.m. All entrances of the parking garage were blocked off as they investigated. The ground floor of the parking garage belongs to the apartment but is also open to the nearby Walmart at Howell Mill Road.
Atlanta Fire Rescue said the apartment building's structure appears to be fine. However, the floor of the parking garage where the truck hit the roof damaged three concrete beams and could be at risk of collapsing, officials said.
Authorities said the truck was leaking gas but they aren't sure how much leaked. Engineers are inspecting the structure of the parking garage.
Atlanta Fire Rescue said there were no injuries and no one had to be evacuated.
“I thought it was a crime scene. I didn’t know what it was, and when you guys told me what it was, I was still shocked," resident Angel Moss said.
Moss couldn't believe her eyes seeing yellow tape as she tried to get into her apartment's parking garage.
The box truck trying to make a food delivery was still stuck inside the garage as of 9 p.m with chunks of concrete from the beams it damaged lining the floor.
“Oh my God! I hope he’s ok!" Moss said when she learned of the incident.
The truck's driver escaped unharmed and told 11Alive how this all happened.
“I came through to make a U-turn, and I wasn’t aware of the low clearance at that point because it’s only at that spot," Vincent Sinkfiel said.
Sinkfiel said the parking garage's ceiling got lower as he drove inside.
“I cleared it up to that point, and I heard a crash -- like you can hear it when it got caught," Sinkfiel said.
The driver said he wished the garage's owners would put up signs warning drivers of the spots with low clearance.
“If they would put a sign up warning drivers or even on the outside saying, ‘Okay, the clearance is low at this point or this point,'" he said. "It’s nothing warning drivers."
Residents said they got two notifications. The first e-mail came out at 3:55 p.m. and told them to move their vehicles. They got another e-mail at 4:12 p.m. not to move their vehicles because of concerns with structural integrity.
The garage remains pretty much empty, as residents watch and wait.
“That’s pretty scary, especially if it affects us, that’s pretty scary. I hope they get everything fixed," Moss said.
A structural engineer looked at the garage to determine if it was structurally sound. No word on when that report may come out.