A minimum of 9 folks have been injured and flights cancelled after a hearth broke out at New York’s JFK airport on Wednesday (native time).
In keeping with Reuters information company, an escalator caught hearth on the airport’s Terminal 8, after which hearth alarms sounded. A number of movies on social media platform X confirmed smoke inside a ready room at JFK airport.
Some 960 folks have been evacuated by bus to a different a part of the terminal, officers stated.
Talking concerning the incident, Steve Burns, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, stated 4 folks have been taken to a hospital for remedy of non-life-threatening accidents.
It added that terminal operations resumed at 8.15am (native time) and the reason for the fireplace was underneath investigation.
In the meantime, talking to ABC Information, a passenger stated he was about to board a flight from New York to Washington when the fireplace broke out.
“I used to be taking a flight in the identical terminal we had been evacuated from. The alarm was going off for a very long time and nobody was paying consideration,” the passenger stated, in keeping with ABC Information.
“Lastly, this girl began working and screaming for assist,” he added, in keeping with ABC Information.
American Airways reported three cancelled flights as a result of incident.
It’s price noting that American Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qantas fly from Terminal 8.
