Police not treating fireplace that shut Heathrow Airport as ‘doubtlessly legal matter’


The Metropolitan Police says it’s not treating a hearth, that led to the closure of Heathrow Airport final week, as a doubtlessly legal matter.

Fireplace crews had been known as to reviews of a transformer alight at North Hyde substation in Hayes, west London, at 11.23pm on Thursday, the London Fireplace Brigade (LFB) stated.

The blaze, which provides electrical energy to Heathrow about 1.5 miles away, brought about an influence outage which meant Europe’s greatest airport had “no alternative however to shut”.

It was shut for many of final Friday, with the 16-hour closure leading to greater than 1,000 flights to and from Heathrow being cancelled and tons of of 1000’s of passengers affected.

“As such, we’re not treating this as a doubtlessly legal matter, though we proceed to assist different companions, together with colleagues from Nationwide Grid, London Fireplace Brigade and SSEN, with whom we stay in shut contact.”

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