The De Soto Fire Department responded to a trash fire in the street the afternoon of Oct. 7 after the blaze started in a trash truck.
The incident was reported about 12:15 p.m. on Fountain City Road at North Main Street, Fire Chief James Maupin reported.
“We had a trash truck with materials that caught on fire, so they had to dump the load,” Maupin said. “We extinguished it. It was in front of the railroad tracks. We had the fire out quickly. We were there about two hours while the company (Waste Connections) cleaned it up.”
He said the Waste Connections truck was not damaged and no injuries were reported from the incident.
The cause of the fire was not known, Maupin said, because whatever item caught fire could have been picked up anywhere along the trash truck’s route.
“There was no way to know how the fire started,” Maupin said.