Unalaska, AK – This morning a pile of waste caught fire at the landfill on Summer Bay Road. No individuals were harmed.

The fire department received a call about a fire in the baler building at 11:16. Fourteen fire and EMS personnel and two police officers arrived on the scene. The fire department contained the fire within 45 minutes, says fire chief Brian Long.

"We had fire under control by 12:01," says "We don't declare the fire totally out until we can pull the fire completely apart, and that's hard to do when you have a mountain of garbage to deal with."

The cause of the fire still has not been determined. More waste was present inside the baler building than usual since utilities was testing new baler equipment according to city manager Chris Hladick.

"We had quite a bit of waste on the floor as they're working on the baler," says Hladick. "They needed some waste to test the new equipment."

The equipment was not damaged, and there was no structural damage to the building. Long says that's in part due to fire safety equipment that had already been installed.

"It got hot enough that it did set the sprinkler system off, which was a very good thing," says Long. "The sprinklers kept the flame down, which reduced any type of flame impingement or heat damage to the structure itself."

The landfill fire was the first major fire in area since the fire at the Peking restaurant in January.