A hamper full of kitchen rags and towels caught fire in the UW-Madison’s Discovery Building Thursday night, according to the Madison Fire Department
Firefighters were dispatched to the research center on campus around 11 p.m. Thursday after the building’s fire sprinkler system detected the burning laundry bin triggering the alarms.
The sprinkler system limited damage to a few items in and around the hamper and a nearby wall, before firefighters extinguished the remaining flames.