BREAKING: Fire at New York’s JFK Airport, Flight Operations at Terminal 8 Hit

New Delhi: A terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was briefly evacuated Wednesday because of an escalator fire.

The fire at JFK’s Terminal 8 was reported at around 7 a.m., Fire Department of New York officials said. No injuries were reported.

A spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said terminal operations had resumed by 8:15 a.m. and the cause of the fire was under investigation.

A video posted on X by a passenger from inside a stalled plane showed fire trucks swarming on the tarmac.

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Airlines including American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qantas fly out of Terminal 8.

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