Middleboro firefighters and other local fire crews spent long hours Friday and Saturday battling an intense blaze at a landscaping job site, calling it a “long, difficult and labor-intensive operation. of work”.

According to Facebook posts from Middleboro Fire Department Local 3653, firefighters were called to Ryco at 481 Wareham Street around 6 p.m. Friday, July 1 to a reported fire in the equipment yard of Agresource, a tenant of the property.

Firefighters arrived to find three large compost piles on fire. Several tankers were called to the scene as tanker shuttles and relay pumping were required, the union said, while battling the heat and humidity of the weather in addition to the fire itself.

“Thousands of feet of supply line were laid with hundreds of thousands of gallons of water applied at the end of the operation,” the union said, noting that a total of 24 fixtures and three towers of lighting were used.

The Wareham Fire Department also reported that a total of 26 Wareham career and call firefighters responded to Middleboro, including helping put out a woods fire that broke out following the main fire and shuttling thousands of gallons of water. scene all night.

Fire crews from Raynham, Lakeville, Halifax, Bridgewater, Plympton and Carver, as well as the Massachusetts fire service department, Brewster Ambulance Service, also responded. Ryco and Agresource employees also used heavy equipment at the scene to help put out the fire.

Units finally cleared the scene around 2 a.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported.