Firefighters Respond To Garbage Truck On Fire On Lake Street
Updates
Incident Details
Firefighters remain on the scene of a trash fire on the 400 block of N. Lake Street.
Madison Police and other witnesses noticed the truck traveling down State Street with active fire coming out the back. The driver pulled over into a UW parking lot and dumped the burning trash onto the cement.
Traffic on Lake Street between State Street and University Avenue was shut down briefly as firefighters attacked the fully-involved fire with water and foam.
At the time of this release, one crew remains on scene to perform cleanup and monitor the rubbish to make sure a fire doesn't rekindle. Investigators are looking into what caused the fire.
(Photos submitted by Mary Reines)