EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) – Tell City officials are reminding the public to never put batteries, biohazardous waste in your trash after a trash compactor caused a jump start pack for vehicles to start a fire.
Officials say thanks to the quick thinking and fast actions of their crew, the fire was extinguished, saving a $130,000 trash truck and possible injury to the crew.
According to a release. if they hadn’t noticed it would have been compacted further into the truck, resulting in a much larger fire and the trash load having to be ejected…