A garbage truck fire Thursday morning has prompted officials to warn residents about the dangers of throwing lithium batteries in household trash. The Department of Public Works crew alerted ...

A person inside a trash bin was rescued from a garbage truck in San Ysidro after being dumped into it, and was taken to the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The City of Oklahoma City is reminding residents to be careful when disposing of batteries after a ...

KEVIN RAUCH/FOR THE EXPRESS A Farwell Sanitation and Disposal Commercial garbage vehicle caught on fire just after 7 a.m. on Monday morning in the parking lot of the Green Lantern Bar and Grill. The ...

LAKE FOREST, IL — A disposed lithium-ion battery is believed to have sparked a fire inside a garbage truck at the Lake Forest Compost & Recycling Center, according to the fire department. Initial ...

Fire crews raced to extinguish a trash fire that began inside a garbage truck in Dutchess County. The incident happened Thursday morning, Feb. 5, when Rhinebeck firefighters responded to reports of a ...

A Saturday fire that destroyed five garbage trucks and damaged one remains under investigation but is not considered suspicious, officials said Tuesday. The fire was started by garbage left in one of ...

Firefighters battling a blaze that erupted in a tractor-trailer truck hauling garbage headed to the town's trash transfer station Saturday had to overcome frozen fire hydrants to douse the stubborn ...

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – A garbage truck caught fire at the intersection of S. Patterson Ave. and More Ranch Road in Goleta just after 1:40 p.m., according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.