A little excitement today...
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So... I'm at work, and I smelled something burning. Check the space heater, check the plug... look outside, see white smoke.
Think, good, the smoke is outside, that means the building I am in is not the one that's on fire.
Go outside, walk down the road a bit, see a LARGE pile of trash being hosed down. Asked the policeman guarding the scene what was going on.
He said that the load of trash inside a town garbage truck had apparently started on fire... so the driver dumped his load onto this empty paved area.
Well, that's a first. I've never heard of the contents of a garbage truck spontaneously combusting. Though you never know what people throw out. And I have seen linseed-oil soaked rags spontaneously combust (ask me how I know!) so I am aware that this can happen.
Anybody else ever heard of a load of garbage starting on fire?
Think, good, the smoke is outside, that means the building I am in is not the one that's on fire.
Go outside, walk down the road a bit, see a LARGE pile of trash being hosed down. Asked the policeman guarding the scene what was going on.
He said that the load of trash inside a town garbage truck had apparently started on fire... so the driver dumped his load onto this empty paved area.
Well, that's a first. I've never heard of the contents of a garbage truck spontaneously combusting. Though you never know what people throw out. And I have seen linseed-oil soaked rags spontaneously combust (ask me how I know!) so I am aware that this can happen.
Anybody else ever heard of a load of garbage starting on fire?
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