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Fires at Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in South Australia
by elliot k	2005-11-13 8:17 PM +0800
Fires at Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in South Australia - From Wikinews: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Fires_at_Baxter_Immigration_Detention_Centre_in_South_Australia 34 accommodation units have been destroyed by fire at the Baxter Detention Centre near Pt Augusta in South Australia today. The blaze broke out around 4am in the kitchen of the "White One" compound. 58 detainees were evacuated...
Fires at Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in South Australia From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! (Redirected from Fires at Baxter Immigration Detention Centre) Jump to: navigation, search November 12, 2005 34 accommodation units have been destroyed by fire at the Baxter Detention Centre near Pt Augusta in South Australia today. The blaze also gutted a kitchen, laundry, recreational area and officers' station. The original blaze broke out around 4am ACST in the kitchen of the "White One" compound which houses single men. Fire units took almost three hours to put them out. Some of the damage caused by the fires at the detention centre Fifty-eight detainees were evacuated from Baxter IDC. Six have been treated for smoke inhalation. Immigration minister Amanda Vanstone says about 17 rooms have been ruined and others damaged. She says deliberate property damage will not be tolerated and the Australian Federal Police are questioning four detainees over the blazes and anyone found responsible will be charged. "Anyone with no lawful right to be in Australia should leave irrespective of the behaviour that they've undertaken, but if someone with a visa or without a visa to be in Australia engages in criminal conduct that would be taken into account in terms of cancelling a visa," she said. The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) said four fires appeared to have been deliberately lit. "The first fire in the kitchen area was followed by three other separate fires within the complex," an MFS spokesman said. Refugee rights advocate Pamela Curr said she had concerns about the safety of detainees in the event of a fire because of the electronic doors. She said detainees at a detention centre at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport had been killed during a fire last month because authorities had been unable to manually open the electronic doors. "Thank heavens nobody seems to have been hurt today," she said. "We're always on the alert that Baxter is not a safe detention centre". http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Fires_at_Baxter_Immigration_Detention_Centre_in_South_Australia Sources * "Baxter detainees may be penalised: govt". The Age, November 12, 2005 http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Baxter-detainees-may-be-penalised-govt/2005/11/12/1131578260662.html * "Detainees questioned over Baxter fires". Australian Broadcasting Corporation, November 12, 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1505290.htm * "Baxter fires 'deliberately lit'". News.com, November 12, 2005 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17220738-29277,00.html * "Photos of the fire damage to Baxter's White One Compound". Australia Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone, November 12, 2005 http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/photos/photos05/baxter-fires-pg2.htm * Jack H Smit "Baxter Fires: DIMIA vilifies detainees spins". Project SafeCom, November 12, 2005 http://perth.indymedia.org.au/?action=newswire&parentview=14107

Baxter Detention Centre - Wikipedia Fire at Australian outback immigration centre". Reuters.co.uk, November 12, 200 scale pictures
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Arsonists put the lives of 350 others at risk
by Billy Baxter	2005-11-13 6:54 AM +0800
If this fire had got out of control, everyone in the centre could have been killed. These are obviously dangerous people with no regard for there fellow detainees. Link here
Imagine being jailed there
by elliot k	2005-11-13 2:03 PM +0800
Well, blaming the refugees is a typical reaction. Its just so easy. However if the Government didn't incarcerate these folks, there would be little cause for such desperate reactions. Its is impossible for us to realise what sort of things go on inside the locked gates, doors and isolation compounds of the Baxter IDC. One thing is certain: the mental stability of those detained without charge or trial in the Australian outback is at stake here. Putting people in jail for being a refugee makes people do crazy things. Bernadette Wauchope from Rural Australians for Refugees said today: "the destruction will continue until something is done." "They become so desperate that they attempt self-harm or attempt suicide or maybe resort to lighting fires," she said. "After being locked up for years and years the feeling that they're isolated and that nobody's listening to what their stories are, often that, well it does contribute to these kinds of acts," she said to the ABC. Link here Add multimedia to story Add links to story
Hidden comments appear on this thread
by Indy watch	2005-11-14 3:32 AM +0800
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Baxter Fires: "an American criminal deportee"
by werd	2005-11-15 11:07 AM +0800
Baxter Fires: "an American criminal deportee" Project SafeCom desk 14 November 2005 Word has been received that "an American criminal deportee" was responsible for the fires .... nobody can confirm that any asylum seeker at all had any role in the fires. Just had a call from xxxxx who is still shaken by the fire that broke out in his compound during the night. It must have been very scarey to be wakened by "Fire"! Lights were out and the compound area full of smoke and stench. According to "xxxxx" one person was taken to hospital because of smoke inhalation. xxxxx also says - as you might expect "ABC radio said there are reports of detainees rioting, although this had not been confirmed by the immigration department." However it was in the early hours (about 4:20am) and xxxxx knew nothing about how it started but it was in the kitchen area... Most were moved to the Red compound. from Safecom newsletter 14th Nov Link here
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