Residents have been evacuated and an exclusion zone has been issued following a fire that has destroyed hundreds of storage facilities at Logan, south of Brisbane.
Emergency services — including 17 firefighting crews — have been battling the blaze at the building on Kingston Road since 10pm on Thursday.
The fire destroyed around more than 150 units and required 50 firefighters at its peak.
Queensland police made the emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) just before midnight.
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Queensland Fire and Emergency Service inspector Chris Griffin said it was a precarious situation.
"It really quickly became unsafe for our crews to be inside, so we've been defensive outside, protecting exposures," he said.
Mr Griffin said the four storage units where the fire started are yet to be assessed, as firefighters have been focusing on putting it out.
"We have two fuel stations that were in very close vicinity, and multiple homes that also back onto the building as well, so we've been protecting those all night."
He said the facility's "shared ceiling space" impacted the fast speed with which the blaze developed.
Some nearby residents spent the night at an evacuation centre set up at the Kingston Butter Factory.
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Mr Griffith says nearby service stations made things "quite difficult".
He says there were concerns the damaged walls were leaning.
"We obviously shut down the fuels and the gases that we could."
He says crews were able to cool the structure enough "to pull those walls back in".
"There was no impact to the servo."
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Mr Griffith said "multiple people" spent the night at the evacuation centre, established at Kingston Butter Factory.
"We had to activate our local disaster management group to be able to support those people," he said.
Mr Griffin described the L-shaped building's damage as "extensive".
"[It was] about 100 metres by 100 metres, we've lost two thirds of that," he says.
While around 300 storage units were lost, he says the "hard work of our firefighters" resulted in a fire wall being established and hundreds of other units being saved.
'I really hoped I could get through 2024 without any more devastation'
Local Lee Jamieson is worried his possession were among those lost. (ABC News: Arianna Levy)
Local Lee Jamieson is worried his possession are among those lost.
"I really hoped I could get through 2024 without any more devastation," he said, sharing that he recently lost both his mother and grandfather to cancer.