Passengers doused by sprinklers inside LAX
Fire sprinklers at a Los Angeles International Airport terminal turned on Sunday after a water pipe broke, dousing passengers waiting for flights or picking up their bags.
Terminal 1 was temporarily evacuated, and the baggage claim and screening areas experienced minor flooding, said airport spokesman Marshall Lowe. At the Southwest Airlines check-in counter, computers were covered in plastic.
The baggage claim area on the lower level was cordoned off, and sawdust and puddles of water lined the floor.
Long lines formed in front of the terminal as passengers had to go through security checkpoints to be readmitted more than an hour later.
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