@ManaAdaSystem
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At least four times in my flying career I have had to "roll the trucks." Two of these times there was actual smoke in the cockpit (once closing down runway 18 in FRA much to the delight of the gents behind us...)
So Fritz did not shut down FRA, just one runway? THAT was a smart decision. LHR have shut down several times, even when one or both runways were available.
You know the layout of FRA? Closing rwy 18 for an incident at it's rear end does not necessarily require to close 25L/R. It's a very large distance between the end of rwy 18 and the traffic on 25 L/R. So if they didn't went out of emergency services it was easy to let open the airport.