[Press Release] : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trash Compactor Fire Evacuates Brady Student Center

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Trash Compactor Fire Evacuates Brady Student Center

COLUMBIA, MO (April 30, 2012) - At 8:05 p.m. this evening, the Columbia Fire Department responded to a reported commercial structure fire at 901 Rollins, the Brady Student Center, on the University of Missouri campus.

Columbia Firefighters arrived on the scene to find smoke and flames coming from a commercial trash compactor located in the Brady Student Center loading dock on the east side of the building.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire in the thirty cubic yard trash compactor. Smoke from the fire triggered the building's smoke alarm system and occupants were evacuated from the building for approximately thirty minutes.

There were no injuries and fire damage was contained to the trash compactor. What ignited the fire in the compactor is undetermined. Fire crews were on the scene for approximately one hour. 

Representatives from the City of Columbia's Public Works Department removed the compactor and transported it to the Columbia Landfill. 


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