AMMUNITION DEPOT GOES UP IN FLAMES
> EXPLOSION CAUSES DANGEJt TO FIREMEN Received Thursday, Midnight. SYDNEY, Jan. 23. Houses in the vicinity of the Darra ammunition depot near Brisbane were evacuated under polic'e orders this afternoon following a big explosion at the depot. Firemen narrowly escaped death from fiying steel fragments as the high explosives hlew up. • The depot is the property of the Dntch army and is guarded by R.A.A.F. men. The firemen were unable to reach the heart of the explosion for more than two hours after it was first reported. When one fire engine stopped at the gate leading to the fire area a large piece of shrapnel shattered the windscreen and narrowly missed the crew. Pieces of nletal were falling on the roadway and the police ordered the evacuation of five houses in the vicinity.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 January 1947, Page 5
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