Airports

Fire closes Rome’s main airport

by Carlo Irlitti · Published 8th May 2015 · Updated 1st February 2023

Rome’s Fiumicino Airport has been closed to the public after a fire broke out overnight in its main terminal for international flights, reports Travel Weekly.

Adding to what has been reported. The fire actually started at 4 minutes past midnight local time. The cause was most probably an electrical fault. The fire destroyed and damaged around forty shops that run between Passport Control and Gates G & H in Terminal 3 Departures.

An area of about 1000sqm was affected one way or another by fire or smoke. Since the fire Terminal 3 has been getting back to some kind of normality. An access point to embarkation Gates G & H was opened in the early hours of Saturday (9 May). At 17:00 of the same day, 553 flights landed or took off from Fiumicino, with about 110,000 passengers arriving and departing. As for the rebuilding of the area concerned, that will take some time.

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