{"id":408681,"date":"2025-09-08T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:55:24","slug":"london-heathrow-airport-terminal-evacuated-after-possible-hazardous-materials-incident-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408681\/","title":{"rendered":"London Heathrow airport terminal evacuated after &#8220;possible hazardous materials incident&#8221;-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" controls=\"controls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250909a6df7c24594e45f8a48e1f23e4ac94da_CbsbeeE000013_20250909_CBMFN0A001.JPG\"\/>This photo taken on March 21, 2025 shows the walkway to Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain. (Photo by Stephen Chung\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The airport said earlier that check-in in its terminal 4 has been closed and evacuated while emergency services respond to the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) &#8212; London Fire Brigade said Monday that they are responding to a &#8220;possible hazardous materials incident&#8221; at the Heathrow Airport in London.<\/p>\n<p>The airport said earlier that check-in in its terminal 4 has been closed and evacuated while emergency services respond to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will provide further information as soon as we can. All other terminals are operating as normal,&#8221; it said on X.<\/p>\n<p>Video clips and photos shared online show that large numbers of people have gathered outside the terminal building, with water and blankets being handed out to keep people warm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the passengers who were due to board at Terminal 4 have been evacuated away from the building, and many are now waiting outside Terminal 5 along with me,&#8221; passenger Cao Yuan told Xinhua.\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This photo taken on March 21, 2025 shows the walkway to Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,28068,257,16,140720,15,10595],"class_list":{"0":"post-408681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-jt","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-uk-incident-heathrow-airport","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115170674315469865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408681","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=408681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}