{"id":37871,"date":"2025-09-24T06:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/london-stansted-airport-delays-after-small-fire-in-lounge\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T06:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:26:45","slug":"london-stansted-airport-delays-after-small-fire-in-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/london-stansted-airport-delays-after-small-fire-in-lounge\/","title":{"rendered":"London Stansted Airport delays after &#8216;small fire&#8217; in lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Part of an airport had to be closed off after a fire in one of its lounges, causing security delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">London Stansted Airport in Essex said there was a &#8220;small fire&#8221; in its Escape Lounge, leading to a &#8220;significant amount of smoke&#8221; at 03:30 BST on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A spokesperson said it was quickly extinguished by the airport fire service and there were no reports of any injuries to passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">While travellers were stopped from entering security for a time, at 06:00 it reopened, but the airport warned there could be delays and urged passengers to check the status of their flights. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0r09nyj5wpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of an airport had to be closed off after a fire in one of its lounges, causing security delays. London Stansted Airport in Essex said there was a &#8220;small fire&#8221; in its Escape Lounge, leading to a &#8220;significant amount of smoke&#8221; at 03:30 BST on Wednesday. A spokesperson said it was quickly extinguished by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3115,1332,666,141,4690,350,5469],"class_list":["post-37871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-airport","tag-delays","tag-fire","tag-london","tag-lounge","tag-small","tag-stansted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37873,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871\/revisions\/37873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}