Some residents of Lewisburg woke up Monday morning with a Code Red message from a fire overnight.

The Lewisburg Fire Department arrived at the Cedar Ridge landfill just after 10 p.m. on Sunday night after reports of smoke at the facility.

Proceeding on foot to the rear of the site, firefighters and Marshall County Sheriff’s deputies discovered what was described as a fairly large fire in a trash pile.

LFD’s engines responded and were guided to the fire location by Waste Management employees who had arrived by that time.

The county tanker task force was also called out with the Farmington Volunteer Fire Department, South Marshall VFD, Chapel Hill VFD, and the Marshall County Office of Emergency Management all providing tankers to haul water from hydrants along Mooresville Highway to the fire site, which was too far from the road for the department to run hoses.

With the tankers providing water, LFD moved from a defensive to an offensive approach to the fire, aided by Waste Management employees using heavy equipment on site to pull apart the pile for better water access.

“They were excellent to work with,” said Lewisburg Fire Chief Larry Williams, of the landfill’s assistance with the blaze.

Emergency Management, monitoring air quality at the fire, sent the Code Red warning as a precaution in case the fire began producing harmful fumes.

Through the event, no hazardous emissions were detected.

LFD continued soaking the pile and battling hot spots until 1:30 a.m. on Labor Day Monday morning, when the fire was extinguished.

WM employees continued to spread and bury the effected trash afterwards to further prevent a re-ignition.

Williams said that an unconfirmed report from one driver on Mooresville Highway stated that smoke might have been present as early as two hours prior to LFD being called.

He said that it would be unlikely to determine the cause of the blaze.