{"id":409363,"date":"2025-09-09T02:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409363\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:55:36","slug":"london-airport-emergency-heathrow-terminal-4-to-reopen-after-evacuation-over-incident-20-assessed-by-paramedics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409363\/","title":{"rendered":"London airport emergency: Heathrow terminal 4 to reopen after evacuation over \u2018incident\u2019; 20 assessed by paramedics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-5.jpg\" alt=\"London airport emergency: Heathrow terminal 4 to reopen after evacuation over \u2018incident\u2019; 20 assessed by paramedics\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Heathrow Airport\u2019s Terminal 4 was evacuated and closed on Monday evening following reports of a possible hazardous materials incident, before authorities later declared it safe to reopen.The London Fire Brigade said it had been called to the scene and deployed specialist crews as a precaution. \u201cSpecialist crews have been deployed to carry out an assessment of the scene, and part of the airport has been evacuated as a precaution whilst firefighters respond,\u201d the brigade said, as quoted by AFP.Operations were stood down roughly three hours later. \u201cAround 20 people have been assessed on scene by paramedics from the London Ambulance Service,\u201d the fire brigade added. London\u2019s Metropolitan Police also confirmed that \u201cno trace of any adverse substance was found.\u201dThe airport operator reassured passengers that normal services would resume. \u201cEmergency services have confirmed Terminal 4 is safe to reopen and we are doing everything we can to ensure all flights to depart as planned today,\u201d it said in a post on X.\u201cWe are very sorry for the disruption caused, the safety and security of our passengers and colleagues is our number one priority,\u201d the airport added.During the closure, Heathrow urged passengers not to travel to Terminal 4, while confirming that all other terminals were operating normally. The UK\u2019s National Rail network also reported that its trains were \u201cunable to call\u201d at the terminal during the incident.Located southwest of London, Heathrow is the UK\u2019s main international airport and one of the busiest air hubs in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport\u2019s Terminal 4 was evacuated and closed on Monday evening following reports of a possible hazardous materials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[52400,1500,748,393,79713,4884,64716,257,140910,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-409363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-airport","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-evacuation","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-heathrow","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-terminal","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115172089956110645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409363","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=409363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}