Luton airport car park burns, forced to close. How come?
A day of passion for transport in the UK. All flights were suspended at Luton Airport after a huge fire caused the partial collapse of one of its multi-storey car parks, with four firefighters and one airport staff member taken to hospital injured.
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service declared a major incident at 9.38pm on Tuesday and, at its peak, had 15 fire engines, three specialist aerial vehicles and more than 100 firefighters at the scene.
According to firefighters, half of the parking lot was "entirely involved in the fire" and the building suffered "significant structural collapse."
Andrew Hopkinson, chief fire officer at Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, said at the time the car park contained up to 1,500 vehicles, of which up to 1,200 were believed to be damaged. Huge damage. A temporary ramp is being installed to allow for the removal of undamaged vehicles.
Hopkinson said firefighters faced a "severe and rapidly spreading fire" upon arrival, and the fire "eventually spread to multiple floors."
The cause of the fire is being investigated, although Hopkinson said there was "no information to suggest it was anything other than an accidental fire that started in one of the vehicles".
The fire probably started in a diesel car, before spreading to nearby vehicles.
“We don't believe it was an electric vehicle,” he said. the head of the fire brigade, who apparently blamed it on a diesel car, but himself wondering how a fire could have started given that diesel fuel requires high temperatures and pressure to catch fire. A beautiful mystery,
The lack of a sprinkler system certainly favored the spread of the fire. Of course, spontaneous fires in parking lots are a strange and disturbing phenomenon.
The airport is expected to reopen at 3pm, but delays and problems are expected until tomorrow.
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