Reports Of Fire At Roosevelt Island Motorgate Garage

Received this advisory at 7:25 PM from Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC):

due to FDNY activity traffic on Main st. will be delay temporarily.

Sincerely,

Roosevelt Island Operating Corp Advisories Group

Also, FDNY Incidents tweets:

Roosevelt Island Manhattan Box 1945, Bn-45 using 2×2 for a car fire, 3rd floor of Collar/Goldwater Hospital parking garage.
FDNY Incidents (@FDNYIncidents) October 20, 2012

and Thomas Schifini Tweets:

@fdnyincidents: Roosevelt Island Manhattan Box 1945, Bn-45 using 2×2 for a car fire, 3rd floor of Collar/Goldwater Hospital parking garage.
Thomas Schifini (@FireMan3913) October 20, 2012

and Kuzma tweets:

Fire in the Motoparking garage on Roosevelt Island.
Kuzma (@abaghirov) October 20, 2012

Just received RIOC advisory at 7:47 PM that:

Traffic on Main St. is back to normal.

Sincerely,

Roosevelt Island Operating Corp Advisories Group

Will update as more information becomes available. UPDATE 10/22 – According to RIOC Press Spokesperson:

A driver noticed smoke and small flames coming from their own vehicle. FDNY extinguished the fire. There were no injuries and there was no damage to Motorgate or other vehicles.