This wasn’t your usual dumpster fire.

Whitehorse firefighters were called out during Monday afternoon’s lunch hour to extinguish a blaze in a Pacific Northwest garbage truck.

The driver had managed to pull the truck off the Alaska Highway near the entrance to Miles Canyon just before 1 p.m.

The Whitehorse Fire Department had been contacted at about 12:45 p.m., according to deputy chief Jason Wolsky.

It was the first time he could remember fighting a fire in a garbage truck, he said today with a hint of a laugh.

Yukon Wildland Fire Management staff members were the first to respond to the incident, as they were passing by on the highway at the time, Wolsky told The Yukon Star.

The Whitehorse department was on the scene shortly afterwards, and called in backup from both the Ibex Valley Fire Department and the Hootalinqua Fire Department under the mutual aid agreement.

The blaze took about an hour to extinguish. There were no injuries.

No cause has been identified as yet, Wolsky said, and the investigation continues.