EMERGENCIES NEAR TOKYO
(L) Smoke rises from a steel plant beside a river in Kawasaki near Tokyo’s Haneda airport on August 24. A huge blaze broke out in the steel plant, a fire department official said, as television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air. (R) A guard checks a vehicle at the main gate of the US Army Sagami General Depot in the city of Sagamihara, some 40 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, on August 24. A blast ripped through a warehouse at the US military post, sending sparks shooting into the sky and triggering a blaze that burned through the night, but there were no reports of injuries. AFP PHOTOS
(L) Smoke rises from a steel plant beside a river in Kawasaki near Tokyo’s Haneda airport on August 24. A huge blaze broke out in the steel plant, a fire department official said, as television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air. (R) A guard checks a vehicle at the main gate of the US Army Sagami General Depot in the city of Sagamihara, some 40 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, on August 24. A blast ripped through a warehouse at the US military post, sending sparks shooting into the sky and triggering a blaze that burned through the night, but there were no reports of injuries. AFP PHOTOS
SAGAMIHARA, Japan: A blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post on Monday and started a fire, while a blaze broke out at a steel plant, in separate accidents around the Japanese capital.