Dozens of residents moved following smoke at Mandarin senior living facility

Jacksonville, FL — The smell of smoke and the sounds of fire alarms were in the air in Mandarin early Thursday morning after smoke from an a/c duct prompted 32 residents to be moved from their rooms at The Terrace of Jacksonville senior living facility. A representative from the facility says no one was injured in the incident on Old St. Augustine Road near Hood Road and they are currently in the process of returning residents back into their rooms. They say the source of the smoke was from a roof-top a/c unit.

The representative says Jacksonville Fire Rescue has checked air quality and everything is safe for the people who live at the facility.  The facility’s system to keep the smoke in a certain area of the building worked according to the representative.

The representative says their goal is to have everyone back in their rooms by sunrise Thursday morning.