GANSEVOORT, N.Y. -- For the second time in two months, fire crews were called to the Hiram Hollow Transfer Station in Gansevoort.

According to the Wilton fire department chief, the call came in shortly before 2 a.m. With many smoldering piles of garbage inside the building, it took several hours to extinguish the flames.

The facility, which temporarily stores municipal garbage before it is sent off to various landfills and burn plants, is run by Casella waste management, a Vermont-based company which has facilities all over the Northeast.

While he declined an on-camera interview, Spectrum News did speak with the company's vice President of safety. He said no one was injured, but the company did lose several pieces of heavy equipment in the fire.

Being municipal waste, he says while there are no hazardous materials stored at the facility, they do not know exactly what was burning inside. At this point, he said he was unsure how it will affect operations at the transfer station moving forward, and he referred those questions to the company’s vice president of communications.

Wilton Fire Chief William Morgan said conditions inside the structure made it particularly difficult to put out the flames.

"The garbage pile was fully involved," he said. "The only way to pull it out was bucket by bucket and just hose each bucket down. It was very time-consuming, [which] requires mass amounts of water."

The most recent fire at the facility occurred just a few months ago. Firefighters, including the Saratoga County fire investigator, remain on scene, trying to assess the damage and determine the cause.