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By Paul Homewood

All flights at Luton Airport have been suspended until the afternoon after a huge fire ripped through a terminal car park.

Flights have been halted until 15:00 BST after the fire at the multi-storey caused the building to suffer a “significant structural collapse”.

About 1,500 vehicles may have been in the car park and subsequently damaged, the fire service said.

Four firefighters and an airport staff member were taken to hospital.

They had been suffering from the effects of breathing in smoke. Another patient was treated at the scene.

The airport said its priority was to support emergency services and the safety of passengers and staff, which is why flights had been suspended.

The fire, believed to have been accidental, would have started in a vehicle that arrived at about the time the fire started, shortly before 21:00 BST, the fire service said.

Footage shared online shows huge flames and billowing smoke from the top level of the car park after the fire broke out shortly before 21:00 on Tuesday.

Bedfordshire Police has asked people not to travel to the area.

Earlier, the ambulance service said a member of the public and six firefighters had suffered smoke inhalation.

Vehicle alarms and loud explosions were heard, with one witness describing the speed at which the blaze had torn through the upper floor of the car park as “incredible”.

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We’ll have to wait for the facts to emerge in due course to find out what caused the fire in the first place.

But the explosions reported, the collapse of the floor and the speed at which the fire spread certainly raise the suspicion that one or more EVs were involved.

Even if not, we do know that a car park full of EVs, which will be the case in a few short years time, would be lethal in the event of a fire.

Just imagine an underground car park beneath a block of flats.

Until the full facts emerge, EVs should be banned immediately from all multi-storey car parks.