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Cairns, in far north Queensland is quite the distance from our Capital, Brisbane…
Cairns, in far north Queensland is quite the distance from our Capital, Brisbane, around 1685kms in fact. Our paramedics in the region are well-versed in being prepared for and having attended large-scale
incidents and natural hazards such as tropical cyclones. #ThrowbackThursday takes us back to one such large-scale incident that occurred on Monday 17 August 1987, when a railway gas tanker wagon sprung a leak. The escaping gas found its way into the nearby National Hotel where a pilot light flame in a hotel appliance ignited the gas causing a large fire. A Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage unit then caught fire and subsequently created a ‘Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion’ or… More
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