Heathrow Airport has said Terminal 4 is safe to reopen after it had been evacuated earlier today while firefighters responded to a “possible hazardous materials incident”.<\/p>\n
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said around 20 people had been assessed at the scene by paramedics from the London Ambulance Service, in a statement on its website.<\/p>\n
London’s Heathrow is the UK’s busiest airport.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, the airport said: “Emergency services have confirmed Terminal 4 is safe to reopen and we are doing everything we can to ensure all flights to depart as planned today.<\/p>\n
“We are very sorry for the disruption caused, the safety and security of our passengers and colleagues is our number one priority.<\/p>\n
“We encourage passengers to check with their airline for the latest information about their flight this evening and our colleagues will be on hand into the night to assist.”<\/p>\n
In a post on X, LFB said: “The Brigade is in the process of standing down its response to the incident at #HeathrowAirport.<\/p>\n
“The exact cause remains under investigation at this time.”<\/p>\n
Earlier today, the airport had advised passengers not to travel to Terminal 4 as emergency services responded to the incident.<\/p>\n
A London Fire Brigade spokesperson had said: “Firefighters are responding to a possible hazardous materials incident at Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n
“Specialist crews have been deployed to carry out an assessment of the scene, and Terminal 4 has been evacuated as a precaution while firefighters respond.<\/p>\n
“The brigade was first called about the incident at 1701, and crews from Feltham, Heathrow, Wembley and surrounding fire stations have been sent to the scene.”<\/p>\n
On X, National Rail Enquiries said trains had been unable to call at Heathrow Terminal 4 because of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport has said Terminal 4 is safe to reopen after it had been evacuated earlier today while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-8641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}