 Hi, my name's Gary Barnes. I'm captain of the Officer of Fire Brigade. Approximately five tonight we had a call to a column of dark smoke in the vicinity somewhere north of the Prince's Bypass. On route to the job, a large column of black smoke was evident. In this area here is used for industrial and recycling. Once we got on scene, it was quite evident that we had a rather large rubbish fire burning which contained numerous LPG cylinders, oxysedoline cylinders and other pressure vessels. Once on scene there was a number of explosions. Also the gate was locked and there was evidently no one around it. So at that stage we made possible entry to the property. Also keeping our distance due to the number of explosions that were occurring at the time. It took some time just to do a recceo, just have a look around to make sure that there was no persons involved and then a decision was made to make pumpers free and platform to try and get on top of the fire. So once that we realised that the smoke was significant and it was going to continue for some time we put a word out to the officer Beaconsfield and upper Beaconsfield communities. We had Brigade supporting us. We had the staff from Pakenham. We also had Pumper from Berwick, Officer Tanker, Officer Pumper and Beaconsfield Brigade as well as the platform from Daniel. Water was rather difficult to try and find for this location. We ended up using a relay of three pumpers to the platform. So we started off with actually Berwick Pumper relayed into Pakenham Pumper then Paken Pumper into Officer Pumper and then turn Officer Pumper fed the platform. It pretty well ran overhead lines for the majority of the job with a ground line being used on and off to protect exposures. We had great support from all firefighters. Did an excellent job containing the fire in the area where it started. As well as that we had numerous police actually doing crowd control and traffic control and also a number of members from the Shire bylaws department. We'll end up being here for some substantial time tonight blacking out. The plan is now to use tankers with hand lines and commensurate final blacking out.