Frightening visuals emerged from an airport in London, where a large fire was caught in a terminal car park. Footages shared online show huge flames and billowing smoke from the top floor of the building. All flights at London Luton Airport have been suspended and people have been asked not to travel there. Bedfordshire Fire Service said that Terminal Car Park 2 suffered ‘a significant structural collapse’. Fifteen fire engines attended the blaze which affected half of the multi-storey structure and involved numerous cars.
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00:00 Frightening visuals emerged from an airport in London where a large fire broke out in
00:10 a terminal car park.
00:12 Footages shared online show huge flames and bellowing smoke from the top floor of the
00:18 building.
00:19 All flights at London Luton Airport have been suspended and people have been asked not to
00:25 travel there.
00:26 Bedfordshire Fire Service said that Terminal Car Park 2 suffered a significant structural
00:32 collapse.
00:33 15 fire engines attended the blaze which affected half of the multi-storey structure and involved
00:39 numerous cars.
00:41 The airport said that flights have been suspended till 12pm BST on Wednesday for the safety
00:46 of passengers and staff.
00:48 Four firefighters and a member of airport staff were taken to hospital after an earlier
00:53 report of smoke inhalation while another patient was discharged at the scene.
00:58 The fire service said that around 1,200 vehicles may have been in the car park at the time
01:03 of the severe fire and subsequently damaged.
01:07 Hundreds of people are stranded in Luton this morning with no way of getting home.
01:11 All the hotels are fully booked and many passengers claim the airlines have simply dumped them.
01:17 There is a heavy police presence with many officers trying their best to direct people
01:22 away from the scene.
01:24 As per reports, many are scrambling with their luggage to Luton Airport's train station in
01:28 a bid to catch a train or coach to other airports in order to catch flights in the next few
01:33 hours.
01:34 The ambulance service said that a critical incident had been stood down but it would
01:39 remain on scene to support fire and rescue colleagues.
01:42 Earlier, the ambulance service said that a member of the public and six firefighters
01:46 had suffered smoke inhalation.
01:49 The fire service said that the first call about a fire involving a car on level 3 of
01:54 the multi-storey had come at 8.47pm BST.
01:58 The airport's website says that the car park that caught on fire is located just a five-minute
02:03 walk to the terminal entrance.
02:06 London Luton Airport is the UK's fifth-largest airport after Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester
02:12 and Stansted.
02:14 Police revealed that it carried more than 13 million passengers in 2022.
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