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Firefighters were showered with chunks of concrete and building debris as they battled a volcano-like fire at a chemical recycling plant.

The inferno erupted in Sydney, Australia on Saturday night local time and was described as a ‘once in a career type of experience’ by fire crews.

A fireball burst 500ft (150m) into the air and spewed blocks of material into the sky.

One storage tank shot away like a projectile and landed 200 metres away, just short of a railway line. Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell said: ‘I have never seen anything like that, to that degree.

‘I’ve had firefighters today tell me they’ve been in the job for almost forty years and had

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