Photos from 'pancake collapse' at Watergate parking garage

Three floors of the parking garage at the Watergate, the D.C. hotel and office building made famous by the Nixon wiretapping scandal — and after which most political scandals are now named — fell Friday morning in what firefighters are calling a "pancake collapse."

The breakdown may have been caused by construction, which some employees in the Watergate's office building have reportedly complained about for months.

Parts of the complex — which houses offices for the Atlantic magazine, a liquor store, grocery store, restaurants, doctors' offices and other businesses in addition to apartments and, of course, the infamous hotel — have been evacuated, while firefighters and EMS responders assess the damage and search for anyone who may be trapped. So far, only one injury has been reported.

Outside the building, local news reporters and displaced Watergate dwellers documented the damage via social media. One Fox 5 DC reporter even reported live from the scene live via Periscope.