NORTHAMPTON - A recycling truck that caught fire next to Northampton High School Monday afternoon prompted police and firefighters to evacuate the building.
According to Capt. Patrick Curtin, at 3:30 p.m., fire personnel responded to the high school on Elm Street for a report that a fire had broken out in the back of a recycling truck as it attempted to process the cardboard it was collecting from a Dumpster behind the building.
It took firefighters only minutes to extinguish the blaze. Police called for an ambulance and ordered the approximately 20 people inside the building to leave for a short time.
No one was injured, Curtin said, and the truck was driven away from the scene.
- OWEN BOSS
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