A fire in the back of a garbage truck Monday morning illustrates the importance of not putting hot materials out for trash pick-up.
Monday morning, while running their Sheldon route, a Sheldon garbage hauler watched the monitor connected to the camera on the back of a truck as the mechanical arm emptied the receptacle, it looked like a puff of snow came from the can. After two more stops, the truck’s camera showed smoke coming from inside the compactor body.
After rushing back to the garbage hauler’s shop, they discovered flames inside the back of the garbage truck. With a garden hose and fire extinguisher the flames were knocked down, then the truck’s load was dumped out onto the ground where employees could spread them out and make sure that all the embers had been extinguished.