Flight op­er­a­tions at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port re­sumed on Fri­day af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing fire at the Amer­i­jet ware­house fa­cil­i­ty at the South Ter­mi­nal forced a tem­po­rary shut­down, ac­cord­ing to the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Au­thor­i­ty said it re­ceived clear­ance to restart op­er­a­tions from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty.

Dur­ing the sus­pen­sion, in­ter­na­tion­al flights were tem­porar­i­ly di­vert­ed to the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go.

The fire trig­gered an im­me­di­ate emer­gency re­sponse by the Pi­ar­co Fire Sta­tion, with sup­port from the Ari­ma Fire Sta­tion. “The fire is now un­der con­trol,” the Au­thor­i­ty said.

Al­though flights have re­sumed, pas­sen­gers may still ex­pe­ri­ence de­lays. “Pas­sen­gers are en­cour­aged to li­aise with their re­spec­tive air­lines for the lat­est flight in­for­ma­tion,” the Au­thor­i­ty said.

The Au­thor­i­ty thanked the trav­el­ling pub­lic and stake­hold­ers “for their pa­tience and co­op­er­a­tion” and said it re­mained com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing “the safe­ty, se­cu­ri­ty, and ef­fi­cien­cy of op­er­a­tions at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.”