Goya Dmytryshchak
The second fire this year at Cleanaway’s Brooklyn rubbish tip is being investigated by the Environment Protection Authority.
A member of the public called triple-0 just before 1am on Sunday to report the latest blaze, which caused a smoke alert to be issued for a dozen suburbs.
Firefighters arrived within six minutes and had to break into the Brooklyn Resource Recovery Centre at 174 Old Geelong Road to get to a burning pile.
The pile, measuring about 20 metres by 30 metres, had to be broken up by excavator operators.
It took 30 firefighters about one hour to bring the blaze under control.
An advice message was issued for Altona, Altona North, Brooklyn, Derrimut, Laverton, Laverton North, Sunshine, Sunshine West, Tottenham, Truganina, West Footscray and Yarraville.
The tip also caught fire on January 25.
The EPA confirmed it will investigate the latest incident.
