From You Tube, 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 Bay.

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