Flights have been suspended at Luton Airport due to a big hearth that has engulfed one in all its automobile parks.
Footage posted on social media confirmed flames and smoke tearing by automobiles parked on the airport terminal on Tuesday night.
Automobile alarms and loud explosions could possibly be heard, with one witness saying the pace wherein the blaze tore by the higher ground of the automobile park was “unimaginable”.
The airport stated on X, previously often called Twitter: “All flights are at the moment suspended as emergency providers reply to a fireplace in Terminal Automotive Park 2.
“Entry to the airport is at the moment restricted and we ask that individuals don’t journey to the airport presently.”
Bedfordshire Fireplace & Rescue Service advised the Day by day Mirror it was known as to the incident simply earlier than 9pm and 10 hearth engines are on the scene.
The fireplace service added that 80 per cent of one of many automobile park’s third flooring was impacted by the blaze.
The East of England Ambulance Service confirmed it was attending the fireplace on the transport hub and stated that one member of the general public and 6 firefighters had been affected by smoke inhalation.
Molly Bullard posted video footage of the fireplace on X and stated: “Scary scenes at Luton Airport because the multi story brief keep automobile park is exploding in flames.”
Russell Taylor, 41, an account director from Kinross in Scotland, noticed the flames after flying in to Luton Airport from Edinburgh.
He stated: “There have been a few hearth engines with a automobile ablaze on the higher ground of the automobile park at simply after 9pm.
“A couple of minutes later a lot of the higher ground was alight, automobile alarms had been going off with loud explosions from automobiles going up in flames.
“The pace wherein the fireplace took maintain was unimaginable.”
Luton Airport has suggested passengers to not journey to the airport and to get in contact with their airline for flight data.
Extra reporting by PA