Porsche Crashes Into Mall After Police Chase, Bursts Into Flames and Destroys Multiple Businesses By Zoe Kalen Hill On 6/4/21 at 12:49 PM EDT Businesses in northeast Atlanta were engulfed in flames Friday morning after a Porsche crashed into a shopping plaza. Atlanta fire Battalion Chief Douglas Hatcher said he believed the Porsche Cayenne crashed into a finance building in the Piedmont Pointe plaza near the intersection of Piedmont and Cheshire Bridge roads, according to the Associated Press. The sports car caught on fire, and the flames quickly spread to the surrounding businesses in the strip mall. Atlanta fire crews responding to the fire were able to extinguish many of the hot spots by 6 a.m. The crews used a defensive strategy to extinguish the blazes in order to limit the spread and damage of the fire. The flames were doused with water from aerial attacks from above the strip mall. Fire crews were working to safely remove the car from the building after the flames were extinguished.