Discarded Cigarette Starts Small Fire Outside DOT Building
Incident Type:
Trash/Rubbish
Dispatch:
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 8:33am
Arrival:
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 8:42am
Address:
4800 Sheboygan Ave.
Madison, WI
Madison, WI
Narrative:
Firefighters responded to the parking lot of the Hill Farms Transportation Building after a discarded cigarette started a fire in a disposal bucket.
Ladder Company 2 found the container melted but all fire had been extinguished prior to their arrival. The container was still warm, so they filled the bucket with water to ensure a fire wouldn’t re-ignite.
Posted 03/18/2016 - 8:26am
Contacts:
Cynthia Schuster (Public Information Officer), 608-261-5539, cschuster@cityofmadison.com