The Victorian Country Fire Authority and Metropolitan Brigade have joined forces to control a huge fire that has destroyed the TriTech Lubricant Factory.

The fire which ate up the manufacturing plant in south eastern Melbourne which measured 1800sqm involved 700,000 liters of flammable liquid.

Mark Kennedy, CFA incident controller, reported the fire could have been even bigger “had the local firefighters not known a hydrogen pipe was on the property.”

"We were able to shut the hydrogen off before it was compromised. It had the potential to make this fire significantly worse,” Kennedy said.

Firefighters were forced to withdraw from the burning warehouse for a period of time and fight it from outside for the possibility of the huge blaze taking their lives.

"It was a very difficult fire to fight given the intensity of the fire based on the products that were on fire. This is certainly up there with one of the worst fires we've had. It has certain similarities to another fire in Dandenong South a number of years ago in terms of the product that was burning and the fire itself,” Kennedy explained.

However, the bulk of the fire was put out by 5 o’clock in the morning.

Arthur Haynes, CFA operations officer, accounted the staff had to work hard to contain the blaze due to the amount of engine oil involved.

"We think the fire started in the office… We haven’t determined the cause of the fire yet," Haynes said.

Matthew Murcott, who manages a business near the factory, said his employees saw shooting flames.

"My boys work just down the end here. I think they may have actually called the fire brigade," Murcott said.

There were no reported fatalities caused by the blaze and authorities have not yet confirmed if the incident was suspicious.