By Brianna Sheats
A BMW caught on fire near 10th and San Antonio Street last night in campus parking Lot 4.
The car’s hood was destroyed by what is suspected to be a mechanical error, according to UPD Capt. Frank Belcastro.
Four cars faced either drastic or minor damages from the incident.
“I didn’t see what was going on, I just walked out and I came here after work,” Scott Jensen, a management information systems business professor, said.
Jensen’s car was involved in the fire and had suffered the most damage with the right side of his car burned and windows shattered.
A crowd of students evacuated the nearby Boccardo Business Center at around 7:30 p.m. because a strong burnt tire smell spread throughout the building.
One police car pulled up to the scene to see what had caused the smell inside the building.
“We just smelled something like a burnt tire and left the building, even people on the second floor smelt it,”
business senior Jimbo Bustamante said.
After 15 minutes, students were cleared to go back inside the building.
Passersby covered their noses because of the severe stench.
