Incident Type: 
Trash/Rubbish
Dispatch: 
Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 3:35am
Arrival: 
Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 3:40am
Address: 
2500 block Winnebago Street
Madison, WI
Narrative: 

A dumpster fire that ignited inside an underground residential parking garage was put to a stop by an automatic fire sprinkler early Saturday morning.

Engine Co. 3 responded to the Carbon Apartments on Winnebago Street to investigate a general fire alarm. Several tenants approached firefighters as they arrived to tell them there’s smoke coming from one of the doors of the underground parking garage.

The crew entered the garage and found an automatic sprinkler activated. Underneath was a dumpster where a fire occurred. The fire was already extinguished and had not spread beyond its area of origin.

Posted 12/15/2019 - 9:06am
Contacts: 

Cynthia Schuster (Public Information Officer)