{"id":2250,"date":"2025-03-21T03:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/londons-heathrow-airport-temporarily-closes-due-to-significant-power-outage\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T03:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:34:27","slug":"londons-heathrow-airport-temporarily-closes-due-to-significant-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/londons-heathrow-airport-temporarily-closes-due-to-significant-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport temporarily closes due to &#8220;significant power outage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport announced it will be closed Friday after experiencing a &#8220;significant power outage&#8221; due to a fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to a fire at an electrical substation supplying the airport, Heathrow is experiencing a significant power outage,&#8221; Heathrow Airport said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HeathrowAirport\/status\/1902911632679805313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on X<\/a>, saying that &#8220;passengers are advised not to travel to the airport.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear exactly how many flights were immediately impacted. The airport said it would be closed through midnight Friday local time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The London Fire Brigade <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LondonFire\/status\/1902873222242079064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters are tackling a fire at an electrical substation in the west London town of Hayes near the airport. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire has caused a power outage affecting a large number of homes and local businesses, and we are working closely with our partners to minimise disruption,&#8221; Assistant Commissioner Pat Goulbourne said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.london-fire.gov.uk\/incidents\/2025\/march\/fire-at-electrical-substation-hayes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>\u00a0in which he described the fire as a &#8220;highly visible and significant incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goulbourne said firefighters had led 29 people to safety from nearby properties, and around 150 people evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s busiest airport advised travelers to contact their airline for further information.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport announced it will be closed Friday after experiencing a &#8220;significant power outage&#8221; due to a fire.\u00a0 &#8220;Due to a fire at an electrical substation supplying the airport, Heathrow is experiencing a significant power outage,&#8221; Heathrow Airport said in a post on X, saying that &#8220;passengers are advised not to travel to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}