Man oh MAN..I hope this isn't OUR ammo...
Here is another report with some more info:
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 · Last updated 2:53 p.m. PT
Fire erupts at U.S. ammo depot in Iraq
By LEE KEATH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A massive fire broke out at an ammunition depot at a U.S. base in southeast Baghdad on Tuesday night, setting off multiple explosions, the U.S. military said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The blasts from ammunition detonating in the depot at Forward Operating Base Falcon went off for hours afterward, sending up huge flashes of light on the horizon that were visible several miles away in central Baghdad, where the force of the explosions could be felt. Some of the blasts came in rapid succession, sending fiery streaks into the air over the city.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known, said Lt. Col, Christopher C. Garver, a military spokesman.
Authorities are "trying to determine the cause or any threat to the population," Garver said.
Falcon is located in a former commercial trucking depot in a sprawling industrial area at the southern entrance of Baghdad, near the violence-torn district of Dora, where U.S. troops have been focusing in a two-month-old sweep of the capital neighborhood-by-neighborhood aimed at rooting out militants and weapons.