Major Fire At Luton Airport

naomi24 | 07:20 Wed 11th Oct 2023 | News

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//All flights at Luton Airport have been suspended until the afternoon after a huge fire ripped through a terminal car park.

Flights have been halted until 15:00 BST after the fire at the multi-storey caused the building to suffer a "significant structural collapse".

Up to 1,200 vehicles may have been in the car park and subsequently damaged, the fire service said.

Four firefighters and an airport staff member were taken to hospital.//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67073446

No cause has yet been given or ruled out but Luton is an area of high immigration and with the situation in Israel escalating, one cannot help but wonder of it's connected. I hope it isn't.

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barry1010

Horrifying. Can't believe that nobody has died in that.

I've seen suggestions that it was a fault with an electric car that caused it but of course nobody knows yet.

dave50

If it was a fault with an electric car it will be covered up.

Moorea7

Frightening! Not pleasant for people who had their cars parked there.

Old_Geezer

I don't wish to jump to conclusions but it seems my first thought are along the lines of others here. The conclusions of the investigation into it should be interesting to read.

barry1010

The Daily Mail states that the car that was first on fire is a diesel car. I'm surprised as diesel does not burn easily

youngmafbog

The picture in The Mail is odd also.

First the brakes are on but the fireball seems low and strong. Second if its diesel buring there would be more smoke as it is essentially and oil.

It could of course be a PHEV.

Canary42

Trial by social media again. Speculative accusation without any evidence. Typical Answerbank.

Zacs-Master

That's a helluva conclusional leap, Naomi.

One fire officer is saying that there were several electric vehicles involved early on. This could suggest a fault with a charging station.

youngmafbog

They could simply have been parked near the source of the fire ZM.

The problem with EV's is if the battery goes the fire brigade have a bit of a problem. It's yet another thing related to the headlong rush before setting up infrastructure, procedures and BCP etc.

naomi24

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No leaps - conclusional or otherwise.

youngmafbog

//Trial by social media again. //

Eh? A car is an inanimate object it wont get any trial!

Zacs-Master

Well, I suppose it's possible, Naomi. Just as a squirrel may have stashed its nuts in the manifold of a Nissan Micra causing it to overheat.

youngmafbog

Are a squirrels nuts that big or is the Micra manifold very small?

Zacs-Master

'They could simply have been parked near the source of the fire ZM'

A bit of Googling finds that there only appear to be EV (Tesla) charging points on level 2 of the terminal 1 parking facility, so my theory appears to be wrong. Ah well.

Zacs-Master

Red or Grey squirrel, YMB? 😜