USA CNN news covering up US Army Depot Explosion when we already knew

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They said STEEL PLANT when it is their military depot.. KNN CNN CCB!


Already other media interviewed base officials in US military uniform with Video saying CAUSE OF FIRE EXPLOSIONS UNDER INVESTIGATION.


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/24/asia/japan-fire-haneda-airport/index.html



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Huge fire breaks out at steel plant next to Tokyo's Haneda airport
By Yoko Wakatsuki and Paul Armstrong, CNN

Updated 0711 GMT (1411 HKT) August 24, 2015


Huge fire near Tokyo airport 00:46
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Blaze occurred at facility owned by Nippon Steel Monday morning, no reports of casualties
Came hours after another fire engulfed storage facility at a U.S. military base outside Tokyo
(CNN)A huge blaze at a steel plant next to Tokyo's Haneda International Airport led to arriving flights being diverted briefly to an alternative landing strip.

The fire broke out at the facility owned by Nippon Steel in Kawasaki City Monday morning, Kota Tanabe, a spokesman with Kawasaki City Fire department told CNN.

Tanabe said 16 fire engines and a helicopter were deployed to the scene.

Video shared with CNN from traveler Darren Pauls showed planes still moving on the tarmac as plumes of thick, black smoke rose above the airport.


Pauls said that the building is still smoldering and that there are at least four helicopters over the site.


There are no immediate report of casualties, but the situation is still not all clear, Tanabe said. The cause is still unknown and will be investigated once the fire and smoke is contained.

Services at the airport have returned to normal, said Takashi Kudo of the Ministry of Land and Transportation.

Second blaze
The plant blaze came hours after an explosion set a storage building alight at a U.S. military base in Sagamihara City in north-central Kanagawa Prefecture, which borders the capital.


Image supplied by the U.S. military shows the damage to the storage facility.
There were no reported injuries, while the cause is under investigation, Tiffany Carter, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Marine Corps in Japan told CNN in an email Monday.

"The storage building is not designated as a hazardous material storage facility as some initial reports indicated. Inside the building that exploded were canisters of compressed gasses: Nitrogen, Oxygen, Freon, and air. The Sagami General Depot does not store ammunition or radiological materials," she said.

CNN's Brian Walker and Annie Rose Ramos in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Blast rips through warehouse at US military depot in Japan
Press Trust of India 05:50 PM IST Aug 24, 2015


Tokyo: A blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post near Tokyo early on Monday, sending sparks shooting into the sky and triggering a blaze that burned through the night, but there were no reports of injuries.
Japanese and US base firefighters held off battling the fire as the contents of the building were assessed, and the blaze died out on its own about six hours after it started shortly before 1:00 AM (2130 IST) with firefighters standing by to contain the blaze.
The explosion occurred at the US Army Sagami General Depot in the city of Sagamihara, 40 kilometres southwest of the Japanese capital, Japanese officials and the Pentagon confirmed.
"We coordinated with US fire units, and did not spray water as we waited for information related to what was inside," an official at the Sagamihara fire bureau said, adding that more than dozen fire engines were dispatched to the scene.
Several hours later, a huge blaze broke out at a steel pipe plant near Tokyo's Haneda airport - in the same prefecture - but local police declined to speculate on whether there was any link between the two incidents.
"We do not know any details at this point," a police spokesman said on the question of any connection. The military depot, located next to a local train station, occupies about two square kilometres.
Nearly 600 people work at the facility which stores supplies and acts as a repair centre for military vehicles. Dramatic video footage showed large sparks - possibly metal canisters - shooting out like fireworks from a huge fire on the building's roof, lighting up the night sky.
A woman who saw the aftermath of the blast told public broadcaster NHK that she heard repeated thunderous explosions for 10 to 15 minutes.
"Orange sparks were rising quite high. I couldn't see smoke but smelled something like gunpowder," she said.
The blast rattled the windows at nearby buildings and those on the scene said they feared it could be a bomb.
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"I thought the American military facility came under a terrorist attack," a local security guard said.
The Pentagon said the cause of the explosion was not immediately known, but that the building did not store ammunition or "radiological materials". Nearby buildings were not damaged.

 

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US Military Base in Japan Rocked by Explosion
A warehouse at a U.S. military base went up in flames last night.


By Franz-Stefan Gady
August 24, 2015
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A blast that shattered the U.S. Army’s Sagami General Depot in the city of Sagamihara, approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo, causing a fire that burned through the night but injuring no one AFP reports.

First reports that a bomb had gone off in the warehouse proved inaccurate. “I thought the American military facility came under a terrorist attack,” a security guard told local media.*”Orange sparks were rising quite high. I couldn’t see smoke but smelled something like gunpowder,”*an eye witness noted.

The blast occurred at 12:45am on Monday local time and was extinguished at 7:09am*by the local fire department, which dispatched 13 trucks to the site of the explosion,*according to the*Wall Street Journal

There was some confusion what exactly was stored at the depot. “We coordinated with U.S. fire units, and did not spray water as we waited for information related to what was inside,” a Sagamihara fire department official told AFP.

Furthermore, the Wall Street Journal relates that Sagamihara’s mayor, Toshio Kayama, received a call from the Colonel William B. Johnson, the garrison commander of the U.S. Army Garrison Japan, during which the mayor insisted on an investigation of the cause of the explosion and the installation of adequate safety measures.

The Pentagon noted in a statement that the facility did not store any “radioactive material” and that no other building at the base were damaged.”The storage building is not designated as a hazardous material storage facility as some initial reports indicated,” according to U.S. Navy Commander Bill Urban, a Pentagon spokesperson.

“Inside the building that exploded were canisters of compressed gases: nitrogen, oxygen, freon and air. The cause of the explosion… is under investigation. There are no indications of injuries,” he added.

The Sagamihara General Depot is home to the U.S. Army’s*35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, which conducts depot operations and combat service support for U.S. forces in Japan. The base is mostly a repair center for military vehicles. The base is primarily used for storing ammunition and petroleum products, according to local media.