{"id":408549,"date":"2025-09-08T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408549\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:43:09","slug":"heathrow-incident-a-mass-hysteria-event-met-source-says-as-no-hazardous-material-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408549\/","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow incident a &#8216;mass hysteria&#8217; event, Met source says as no hazardous material found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we know so farpublished at 19:34 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>19:34 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 17:01 BST this evening, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) was called to Heathrow Airport. LFB said it was responding to a &#8220;possible hazardous materials incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terminal 4 was evacuated, a spokesperson from the airport said, and passengers were seen waiting outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Rail said trains had been unable to call at the Terminal 4 stop as emergency services were &#8220;dealing with an incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What we don&#8217;t know is what the specific issue is, nor what caused it. It&#8217;s also unclear what the knock-on effect on air traffic will be &#8211; some flights appear to be going ahead, while others in various terminals are showing delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we know so farpublished at 19:34 British Summer Time 19:34 BST At 17:01 BST this evening, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-408549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115170391115347141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}