Hundreds displaced after fire causes flood at 505 residential tower in downtown Nashville

Nashville fire crews extinguished a fire in a downtown high-rise apartment building Sunday morning, but hundreds of residents will be displaced after a loss of power and flooding on multiple floors.

The Nashville Fire Department dispatched crews to a fire started on the 27th floor of 505 Nashville on Church Street shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday morning.

NFD said in a social media post that sprinklers in the building put out that fire, but water flowed to lower floors and started an electrical fire on the 24th floor. NFD crews extinguished that fire.

NFD reported that there were no injuries and that the building had been evacuated.

In a Sunday afternoon update on social media announcing it had turned the scene over to property management, NFD said that floors 3-29 of the building remain without power and that residents in about 350 units will be displaced.

The department announced earlier on Sunday that NFD crews were working to clear affected floors and that water damage was delaying restoring power to the building.

"Some residents require special assistance to exit & fire crews are finding ways to light the exits & evacuate residents," NFD said in the post on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

Opened by prolific Nashville high rise developer Tony Giarratana in 2017, the 45-story tower is a few blocks from the heart of downtown’s nightlife district.

Evan Mealins is the justice reporter for The Tennessean. Contact him at emealins@gannett.com or follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @EvanMealins.

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