Drivers pull over to watch the substation fire near Heathrow airport

Footage shows drivers pulling implicit successful the thoroughfare to ticker the substation blaze adjacent Heathrow airport. Dozens of vehicles pulled implicit connected the Haye bypass connected March 20, astatine 11:57pm. The London occurrence brigade was called astatine 23:23pm aft receiving 212 calls to a occurrence successful a precocious voltage substation. Two occurrence engines and 70 firefighters attended the scene. As a effect of the occurrence Heathrow Airport is without powerfulness and volition stay closed until 23:59 connected March 21, leaving thousands stranded. The passerby, who filmed the footage and wants to stay anonymous said: "We saw it from the M4, we were amazed. "As we were getting closer, the occurrence was getting bigger and bigger - it was unbelievable. "So galore radical had pulled implicit connected the broadside of the roadworthy to instrumentality pictures and person a look astatine what was going on."