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Fire with explosions destroys factory in Australia's Melbourne, no casualty reported

Aug 18, 2024

Sydney [Australia], August 18: A cabinetry factory has caught fire and been destroyed in flames and explosions on Sunday morning in Melbourne, the capital city of Australia's state of Victoria, with no injuries reported.
Witnesses made emergency call at about 1 a.m. local time on Sunday to report the fire, saying they heard loud explosions coming from a cabinet-making business Hammond Road in Dandenong South, said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
It appears that there were several explosions due to the nature of the material in the factory, the ABC quoted Fire Rescue Victoria Commander Travis Harris as saying.
A wall separating the cabinetry business from an adjoining factory was blown out by one of the explosions, enabling the fire to spread and damage the second building, said Harris.
It took the firefighters about two hours to bring the fire under control and no one was injured as nobody was in the building at that point of time.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the police.
Source: Xinhua

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