Fire broke out at New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuations and delayed flights.
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) officials told PIX 11 News that a fire broke out on an escalator near the airport’s Terminal 8 at around 7 a.m. The fire prompted officials to evacuate people from the terminal.
“Flight operations at Terminal 8 have been impacted. Please check with your airline to determine the status of your flight,” the airport wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Other X users shared videos of impacted flights, such as @Kiko_Alvarez, who wrote, “Something is happening in #JFK airport. We are not allowed to depart.”
A spokesperson for the FDNY confirmed to Newsweek that the agency first received a fire call at around 7:01 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning.
The call was made for a “report of smoke,” and fire officials discovered a fire in an escalator, the FDNY told Newsweek.
The FDNY spokesperson told Newsweek that Terminal 8 was evacuated “due to [a] smoke condition.” No injuries were reported from the incident, and fire operations are currently ongoing, they said
In a statement to a spokesperson for the New York and New Jersey Port Authority said, “At about 7:15 this morning, an escalator in concourse C at JFK’s Terminal 8 began showing smoke. About 960 people were bused to other areas of the terminal where operations continue. Four people were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The cause is under investigation.”
