Video: Onset firefighters douse trash truck fire

ONSET – At 12:03 PM Monday, Onset fire received a 911 call from the Wareham Police dispatch reporting a vehicle fire. First arriving units found an ABC residential trash collection truck with a fire in the back, the driver detected the fire while on his route and drove to a municipal parking lot. When Chief Osswald arrived he instructed the driver to dump the load onto the pavement so extinguishment operations could begin.