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Police not treating hearth that shut Heathrow Airport as ‘probably prison matter’

By Editorial Board Published March 25, 2025 2 Min Read
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Police not treating hearth that shut Heathrow Airport as ‘probably prison matter’

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

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

The blaze on the substation, which provides electrical energy to Heathrow about 1.5 miles away, triggered an influence outage which meant Europe’s largest airport had “no choice but to close”.

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The aftermath of the substation hearth. Pic: Reuters

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 hundreds of passengers affected.

The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command had been main the investigation to ascertain the reason for the blaze.

Proximity of Heathrow to the electrical substation

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Proximity of Heathrow to {the electrical} substation

“As such, we are no longer treating this as a potentially criminal matter, although we continue to support other partners, including colleagues from National Grid, London Fire Brigade and SSEN [Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks], with whom we remain in close contact.”

The reason for the hearth will proceed to be investigated by Nationwide Grid, London Hearth Brigade and Southern Electrical energy Community.

Round 200,000 passengers had been disrupted after Heathrow was closed to all flights on Friday till round 6pm following the hearth.

Heathrow’s chief government Thomas Woldbye will probably be grilled by MPs on 2 April at a one-off session investigating the closure of the airport.

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