Crews Contain Fire At Pleasanton Transfer Station

PLEASANTON, CA — Crews contained a fire at the Pleasanton transfer station Monday morning that began in a debris pile and spread to a tractor-trailer, a fire official told Patch.

Crews responded around 6:09 a.m. Monday to a report of a tractor trailer on fire at the transfer station at 3110 Busch Road. They discovered that a machine operator inside the station had dumped a debris pile onto the tractor-trailer, not realizing that the debris was on fire, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Captain Jason Solak told Patch.

The seven responding fire units contained the fire within an hour, working with the transfer station operators to use heavy equipment that helped extinguish the blaze, Solak said.

No one was injured, although the tractor trailer sustained significant damage. The transfer station building sustained minor heat damage, Solak said.

The transfer station remained open Monday morning.