Crews put out a fire in trash that been deposited into a truck for removal in Rindge Friday morning.

“People should know what they’re putting in the trash,” said Rindge Fire Dept Capt. Casey Burrage.

A call came in at 11 a.m. that a trash truck was on fire on Bancroft Road. A Monadnock Disposal Services truck had picked up a dumpster of trash and the crew noticed smoke coming from the garbage. Rindge crews received assistance from the Jaffrey Fire Department.

“We had MDS open up the back of the truck, and because it’s pretty compressed in there, the trash popped out. Unfortunately, I need to get everything out to get water to the source,” he said. “The fire wasn’t in trash that had been compacted yet, otherwise it would have been more of an issue.”

Crews extinguished the fire, and a separate MDS vehicle arrived to remove the trash. As of early Friday afternoon, it was not clear what the source of the fire within the trash was.

“People should know what they’re throwing out,” said Jimmy Peard, a dispatcher with MDS who was operating the vehicle when he noticed smoke in the trash.  “People put hot ashes in trash, TV remote batteries, pellets from stoves. If you put pool chemicals and bleach together, it’ll combust.”

Burrage cautioned against disposing other items that have caused similar incidents.

“Propane tanks, lithium ion batteries – batteries should be taken to recycling centers,” he said.