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Luton Airport fire: Flights suspended for most of day as 40,000 affected - live
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Up to 40,000 passengers have been affected by flight cancellations after a large fire broke out at one of London’s Luton Airport’s car parks.
The airport has now suspended all flights until at least 3pm, as firefighters remain at the site of blaze that broke out just before 9pm.
The newly-built car park building at the airport’s Terminal 2 has partially collapsed, the Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said.
It was not known if any passengers were trapped on the tarmac, inside the airport or in the Terminal 2 car park.
It added that 80 per cent of one of the car park’s third floors was impacted by the blaze.
Up to 1,200 vehicles may have been in the car park at the time of the fire and subsequently damaged.
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