Five fire engines and around 30 firefighters attended a fire at a landfill site on Launders Lane in Rainham.
Approximately 60 metres square of rubbish and wasteland was alight. A 32-metre turntable ladder was deployed to help extinguish the fire from height. A drone was also used to help provide the Incident Commander with a greater situational awareness of the incident.
The Brigade was called at 1749 and Control Officers mobilised crews from Wennington, Dagenham, Hornchurch, Barking and Hainault fire stations to the scene, along with a turntable ladder from Soho Fire Station. Crews left the scene at around 2130.