Fire breaks out in compound of U.S. Navy ammunition depot in Nagasaki

A fire broke out at about 4 p.m. Saturday within the premises of the U.S. Navy's Maehata ammunition depot in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, a local Japanese fire department and police said. A woodworking facility facing Sasebo port is burning but the location is far from where ammunition is stored, the police said.

The U.S. military is fighting the fire and no request for help has been made to the Sasebo fire department or Sasebo police department, they said. The local fire department, however, dispatched fire engines.