16 Jan, 2020 @ 19:44
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Alicante airport re-opens 24 hours after blaze on roof caused mass diversions and cancellations

Alicante Airport Roof Fire

Alicante Airport Roof Fire

ALICANTE airport has re-opened 24 hours after a fire on its roof caused a wave of flight cancellations and diversions. 

The fifth busiest airport in the country, which connects travellers to the Costa Blanca, resumed operations at around 2pm today.

Firefighters had been battling the blaze, which covered an area of 13,000sq ft, overnight.

It had forced the airport to be fully evacuated, with hundreds of passengers and personnel taken outside and away from the bellowing black smoke.

The material of the roof is believed to have been ‘slow-burning’, making putting out the flames a difficult task.

The airport remained affected this morning with 53 flights being forced to divert to Murcia or Valencia.

More than 60 flights were affected yesterday.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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