BlueScope Steel Hydrochloric Acid Fire

A steel production plant building containing half a million litres of hydrochloric acid goes up in flames.

Fire started in the building (200m x 20m x 20m) at the BlueScope steel plant in Hastings, Victoria, Australia, around midnight last night (13 May 2009).

CFA and MFB had 28 firefighting vehicles at the scene, including specialist atmospheric monitoring equipment and ladder platforms.

The smoke plume from the fire was pushed over Westernport Bay by the prevailing winds as far as Phillip Island.

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Comment by lutan1 on May 17, 2009 at 9:05pm: Here's some photos of the same incident
http://www.cfaconnect.net.au/index.php/news/region-8/hydrochloric-a...

Comment by Doug on May 16, 2009 at 3:36am: Good job boys!

Comment by lutan1 on May 16, 2009 at 1:38am: Here's another video of the same fire:

Comment by lutan1 on May 16, 2009 at 1:34am: Additional Information at:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,25472751-2862,00.html

The building contained in the vicinity of 400,000 litres of HCI.