Highlands fire crews put their relatively new tanker truck to good use Thursday afternoon.
Crews were called to a fire at Tervita Corp.’s Highwest facility on Millstream Road just after 1 p.m. The site is an engineered landfill and disposal facility.
“Basically, the pile had caught,” noted Deputy Fire Chief Gregg Fletcher. “They had their [excavators] there so we opened it up and soaked it.”
The department used both of its tanker trucks to soak the pile, making sure the fire was out and had not spread underground.
Fletcher added that crews from Tervita would monitor the site overnight just to make sure any remaining hot spots don’t flare up again.
Nine firefighters were on scene for about an hour and a half.