CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The City of Cleveland says a fire that started early Saturday morning at the controversial Arco dump site on Noble Road in East Cleveland does not pose a risk to residents in the area, a statement released Saturday night says.

The East Cleveland Fire Department and the Ohio EPA are leading the investigation, according to Cleveland's statement. But Cleveland city officials sent staff to the site Saturday to install air-quality monitoring equipment at the dump andin the surrounding community, the statement says.

The air-quality results collected Saturday do not show any health concerns for residents that live near the site, the statement says. The Ohio EPA made a similar finding, today.

The East Cleveland Fire Department is still at the scene and the fire is under control, the Cleveland statement says.

"The safety of all residents is our primary concern and we stand ready to assist the City of East Cleveland," the statement says.

The East Cleveland Fire Department went to the site early Saturday morning to a report of smoke at the 6-acre Acro site, Ohio EPA spokeswoman Heidi Griesmer said in an email.

The dump has been controversial in the community for years. The land was foreclosed and given to the city's land re-utilization program in 2012.

East Cleveland sold the land to Arco Recycling, and the company began operating a construction recycling operation there in 2014. It dumped concrete, dirt, lumber and construction materials on the site.

Not much of it ended up being recycled, however, and the debris turned into mountains that towered over homes near the property.

Residents complained about the dump from the start. The Ohio EPA shut it down in January of this year. Arco appealed the order to the Ohio Environmental Review Appeals Commission where it is still pending.

But the Ohio EPA moved aggressively to begin cleanup at the site. The agency is spending $6 million in state money and working with East Cleveland, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and the City of Cleveland to remove the debris. The work began this summer and is expected to be completed early next year.

"We have been working with our partners at the EPA, the City of East Cleveland and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health to oversee the mitigation of cleanup and removal of the material from this site," the City of Cleveland statement says.