Following the extreme fireplace in a carpark at Luton airportall 1,405 autos at the moment within the facility are prone to be destroyed when the construction is demolished.
The information emerged 5 days after the blaze on the airport’s Automotive Park 2. The fireplace led to the closure of the airport for 18 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, 10-11 October; 235 flights have been cancelled, affecting as much as 40,000 passengers.
A spokesperson for Luton airport stated: “Regrettably, it’s unlikely that any autos within the automotive park will likely be salvageable. Nonetheless, that is nonetheless within the technique of being assessed.
“We’re working with the Affiliation of British Insurers on behalf of the numerous insurance coverage corporations to determine whether or not it will likely be doable to soundly retrieve any private possessions and, in that case, how this course of may go.”
Particulars of the autos have been offered to the Motor Insurers’ Bureau which in flip has handed them on to particular person insurance coverage corporations.
On the day after the fireplace, a senior fireplace officer informed The Impartial that the intense temperatures through the blaze could have weakened the multi-storey automotive park a lot that making an attempt to recuperate autos may very well be deemed too harmful.
The location has now been handed again to the airport, following police and fireplace investigation. Work to evaluate the structural integrity of the automotive park is underway, with stabilisation work scheduled to start on Monday.
When the duty is full – which is prone to take a number of days – the prospects for salvaging any autos and possessions will likely be reassessed.
The Luton airport spokesperson added: “We recognise this has been an especially distressing time for all involved.
“We want to thank our clients for his or her ongoing persistence and understanding whereas we work by way of the numerous complexities following this incident.
“Since Tuesday night, along with Apcoa parking, we’ve got responded to virtually 16,500 buyer queries. Coping with such a big quantity of inquiries, whereas an investigation is ongoing, has naturally prolonged our response instances.”
Automotive Park 1, adjoining to the construction hit by the blaze, is now open and working usually. However capability for autos to park within the central space of Luton airport has been sharply lowered due to the fireplace.