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Garbage truck dumps burning load on UW-Madison parking lot

The driver of a garbage truck stopped at the 7-11 on State Street Monday when a bystander told him smoke was rising from the truck’s cargo area, the Madison Fire Department said.The driver dumped the burning load onto a nearby UW-Madison parking lot in the 400 block of North Lake Street, where firefighters responded about 11:45 a.m.