Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Careless smoker starts garbage can fire

March 26, 2007, 10:04 PM
An employee of the Walgreen’s in Cermak Plaza, 7173 Cermak, reported seeing a man putting something in a garbage can there, after which the garbage can caught fire. The man, a 54-year-old from Maywood, told police he had put a cigarette into a plastic soda-bottle and thrown it away, thinking the cigarette was no longer burning. Berwyn fire personnel put out the fire.