Rome airport fully operational after forest fire affects flights

Rome airport fully operational after forest fire affects flights
By Euronews
Share this articleComments
Share this articleClose Button
ADVERTISEMENT

Rome’s Fiumicino airport resumed full operations after smoke from a forest fire on Wednesday forced Italy’s busiest hub to suspend takeoffs and restrict landings.

Airline Alitalia announced the resumption of services in a Tweet several hours after the blaze broke out in one of several forests of pine trees near the airport.

Forest rangers said in a statement that the blaze had affected about 40 hectares of a nature reserve that totals some 16,000 acres. The fire had been whipped by winds and put under control by fire-fighting planes that dropped water on the area.

Due a fire outside Rome #Fiumicino airport all departures are suspended. Next info will follow. pic.twitter.com/TUoQQVLsjr

— Alitalia (@Alitalia) July 29, 2015

A fire in one of the terminals on May 7 affected services for more than two months before the airport fully opened on July 17.

#Incendio vicino scalo #Fiumicino, blocco di tutti decolli in aeroporto http://t.co/PtiFcafsOapic.twitter.com/nezl8MmREo

— Agenzia ANSA (@Agenzia_Ansa) July 29, 2015

Incendio a Fiumicino, stop decolli – Alitalia: blocco disposto da autorità #fiumicinohttp://t.co/79xaSvpEcMpic.twitter.com/WQzaa3pIZ0

— Tgcom24 (@MediasetTgcom24) July 29, 2015

Fiumicino is on the Mediterranean Sea, west of the capital. It is close to a number of parks and nature reserves of forests of pines native to the area.

The airport was closed last May because of a fire in one of the terminals.

Share this articleComments

You might also like

Italy unveils new plan to improve worker safety after construction site disaster

The oldest country in Europe: What’s behind Italy’s ageing problem?

Giulio Regeni was brutally killed in Egypt 8 years ago. Why is nobody in jail for his murder?