Bizarre explosion, fire cause delay in AFL clash

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There person been bizarre scenes astatine the Gabba aft the lights went retired midway done the last 4th of the Brisbane Lions' clash against Melbourne.

The Lions were starring 14. 7. (91) to 8. 3. (51) successful the last 4th with 12 minutes near erstwhile determination was a large bang and the lights went retired wrong the stadium. Brisbane yet took retired the lucifer 14. 9. (93) to 13. 4. (82) aft a spirited Demons comeback pursuing the delay.

Players and fans were near stunned astatine the stoppage, which was followed by different large detonation arsenic 1 of the lights successful a airy operation caught fire.

The powerfulness outage caused a large suspension successful the last 4th successful what was described arsenic a "very weird occurrence" by pb commentator James Brayshaw connected Seven's coverage.

"No 1 had immoderate thought what happened," added Brisbane large Alastair Lynch.

"We person perfectly nary thought what's going on," bound rider Abbey Holmes said connected Seven's coverage.

"The torches from the iPhones present going on. There was different large bang astir 10 seconds ago."

Eventually 3 of the 4 airy towers regained powerfulness and play resumed aft a 35-minute hold with a shot up connected the wing.

Brisbane midfielder Josh Dunkley called the concern "very unique" aft his broadside held connected for the 11-point win.

"I don't deliberation I've seen thing similar that successful satellite sport," helium said.

"It was a disappointing extremity for america to fto them backmost into it similar we did, but the archetypal 3 quarters were beauteous promising.

"I wasn't excessively definite what they'd bash with the people oregon whether they'd reset the crippled oregon telephone it disconnected astatine the time. It was a spot of a weird one."

The Lions volition anticipation to marque it 2 wins successful 2 erstwhile they question to Melbourne to instrumentality connected the Bulldogs successful circular three, portion the Demons volition big the Swans astatine the MCG.

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