Massive fire causes $30m damage to Darwin health supply facility, sparking emergency alert

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A 'Code Brown' has been declared by the Northern Territory's health department after a fire destroyed a warehouse where supplies for a number of the territory's hospitals were stored.

Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleThe Northern Territory government has issued an emergency "Code Brown" for its health services, after a massive fire caused about $30 million in damage to a warehouse storing medical supplies for Royal Darwin Hospital and other health centres.

Mr Spain described the building as a "health storage facility" and that the "initial estimate" of the damage was $30 million."At this stage it's early, but you can image [there were] a lot of medical supplies in there, we know that there were oxygen cylinders in there."All that is combustible material, that's what produced the toxic smoke."

 

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