Post by andypspotter on Oct 21, 2016 18:10:35 GMT
London City Airport has been evacuated in a suspected chemical incident which has left people needing treatment for breathing difficulties.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said about 500 people were forced to leave the east London airport after some passengers felt unwell.
Ambulance staff treated 26 patients on the site and the LFB sent appliances used to deal with chemical incidents.
In a tweet, London Ambulance Service said two people had been hospitalised.
A spokesman for the airport said the evacuation took place at about 16:00 BST after a fire alarm was set off.
Boxer David Haye who was at the airport en-route to Scotland tweeted: "Gutted cant get to Scotland for @joshtaylorboxer fight tonight. As #CityAirport got evacuated when everyone started coughing uncontrollably!"
Chris Daly, 35, from Southend, told the BBC he had just landed from BA flight from Glasgow when he heard the fire alarms.
"When we got into the airport terminal building we could hear the fire alarms going on, then there were announcements in three different languages saying this is a fire alarm and the crew were directing us at the baggage carousel to evacuate the building.
"We are now all standing on the tarmac under the wing of the airplane because it has started to rain.
"I can see some plane circling in the sky but nothing else has landed. No-one has really told us anything. We saw some fire crew going inside to do a sweep.
"I saw something on Twitter about it being a possible chemical incident. I'm not particularly worried because we are outside now."
Another passenger Shauna Bull said: "They are starting to take us inside now.
"They've separated us into domestic and international and I thought we were going to get to go home but they've taken us into a room for border force control to process us.
"There are buses now taking people on toilet trips to a toilet somewhere so I think we could be here for a while yet. No-one is saying anything.
"I've told my dad, who I was supposed to be meeting, and he's sitting in a pub now telling his mates.
"I'm not overly worried. I just hope they sort it out. I live in London so I'm used to this sort of thing."
London Ambulance Service tweeted: "Ambulance crews and our Hazardous Area Response Team are attending the incident at London City Airport."
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said about 500 people were forced to leave the east London airport after some passengers felt unwell.
Ambulance staff treated 26 patients on the site and the LFB sent appliances used to deal with chemical incidents.
In a tweet, London Ambulance Service said two people had been hospitalised.
A spokesman for the airport said the evacuation took place at about 16:00 BST after a fire alarm was set off.
Boxer David Haye who was at the airport en-route to Scotland tweeted: "Gutted cant get to Scotland for @joshtaylorboxer fight tonight. As #CityAirport got evacuated when everyone started coughing uncontrollably!"
Chris Daly, 35, from Southend, told the BBC he had just landed from BA flight from Glasgow when he heard the fire alarms.
"When we got into the airport terminal building we could hear the fire alarms going on, then there were announcements in three different languages saying this is a fire alarm and the crew were directing us at the baggage carousel to evacuate the building.
"We are now all standing on the tarmac under the wing of the airplane because it has started to rain.
"I can see some plane circling in the sky but nothing else has landed. No-one has really told us anything. We saw some fire crew going inside to do a sweep.
"I saw something on Twitter about it being a possible chemical incident. I'm not particularly worried because we are outside now."
Another passenger Shauna Bull said: "They are starting to take us inside now.
"They've separated us into domestic and international and I thought we were going to get to go home but they've taken us into a room for border force control to process us.
"There are buses now taking people on toilet trips to a toilet somewhere so I think we could be here for a while yet. No-one is saying anything.
"I've told my dad, who I was supposed to be meeting, and he's sitting in a pub now telling his mates.
"I'm not overly worried. I just hope they sort it out. I live in London so I'm used to this sort of thing."
London Ambulance Service tweeted: "Ambulance crews and our Hazardous Area Response Team are attending the incident at London City Airport."