 Good afternoon, my name is Greg Christerson, I'm an Operations Officer from District 8. I'm here at the factory fire that we've had in Dandenong South on the day shift incident controller. As you can see behind me we've had a significant factory fire which was reported last night, approximately 1800 hours. It was quite evident to the responding crews from the direct line call that they received that there was a significant fire which had originated in the premise behind. Senior Station Officer Rick Owen was the first responding officer and it was quite evident on route that he was attending a call of quite some significance. His initial call on route was to make Pumpers 10 and Aerial Pinesers 3. Soon after arrival it was evident that the fire had taken hold of the factory which was approximately 100 metres by 40 and his call soon after that was for make Pumpers 15 and Aerial Pinesers 5. With such a large resourcing request we had support from our sister agency the MFB who supplied a number of Aerial Pinesers plus additional supporting specialist gear. The hose laying pods from the MFB and Scoresby were both responded in addition to Frankston's BA van and also Bayswater BA van. A multi-agency firefight ensued and unfortunately the building behind us was a little worse for wear. The structural collapse was very soon after the initial responding crews booked on scene and a red flag warning was initiated to alert all crews on scene that the building was suffering collapse. Community warning and advice messages were put out very early on to alert all members of the community that there was a significant fire in the area of Dandenong and that they were to stay indoors and monitor the CFA website for any further information. We're now some 18 hours into the incident it has been heavily supported by District 8 and surrounding brigades to ensure that not only did we have a successful firefight but we've also been able to commence overhaul operations and moving to the recovery phase. We've had a number of specialist people on scene who've assisted us from fire investigation, the CIE unit from the local Dandenong division. We've had the local building surveyors providing specialist advice. We've also had the building tenants and the building owners here who've been assisting us in the recovery efforts. At this point we've still got a number of appliances on scene and at approximately 12.30 today we had a fire which broke out in the office area just behind me. The office area being approximately 20 by 20 meters and we had to move into BA stage one operations. The operations commander for the day shift, the station officer Booth from Dandenong fire station has been able to effectively suppress and contain the fire to the structure of origin and we've been able to implement salvage operations to ensure that all the personal effects of the occupants have been removed from the building. In addition to the specialist appliances from MMP we had the ultra large pumper which was there to support their aerial appliances. We've engaged the EPA and also the water company to assist in managing the firewater runoff. We believe that Boons have been placed in Dandenong Creek to ensure that any firewater runoff has been captured and we don't further contaminate any of the surrounding waterways. One of the critical things that we like to maintain at an incident of such large complexity is a health and welfare monitoring team from the ambulance who are primarily there to look after the welfare of our firefighters. They were activated very early on in the piece and are still here today still maintaining the welfare of our people. Without their valuable assistance our firefighters wouldn't be able to operate in the harsh conditions that they have been at. Unfortunately due to the severity of the fire we've been able to contain it to the structure of origin however it has suffered some substantial loss. The night shift incident control of senior station officer Rick Owen assisted by senior station officer Devon is able to set the foundations for an extremely effective firefight. One of the main priorities of their firefighters has been protecting the exposures and all surrounding buildings have been protected sufficiently well. Some of the buildings only suffering some smoke damage. All in all it's been a massive effort by all agencies on scene police, Fire Brigade, MFB, Ambulance Victoria, all their cancer representatives and all members on scene should be congratulated for the hard work that has not only gone on throughout the evening but also well into today.