Firefighters called in for dumpster blaze

Fire inspector trying to determine the cause

Image | Fire truck Charlottetown

Caption: The Charlottetown Fire Department responded to a dumpster fire on Sunday night. (Pat Martel/CBC)

The Charlottetown fire department had to put out a dumpster fire at Charlottetown Rural High School on Sunday night.
Deputy fire chief Tim Mamye said the call came in around 8:20 p.m. and it took firefighters about 45 minutes to extinguish the burning garbage.
He said there was a lot of smoke.
Charlottetown's fire inspector is investigating trying to determine the cause and origin of the fire.
Mamye said it isn't clear if the fire was intentionally set.