Discarded Cigarette Sparks Small Fire at McDonald's

Lawrence Township volunteer firefighters responded to the McDonald's near the Brunswick Traffic Circle shortly before 7 p.m. today (Wednesday, April 11) after a carelessly discarded cigarette ignited the mulch bed surrounding the menu board for the restaurant's drive-through lane.

Firefighters said an area of mulch about 5-feet wide burned. A McDonald's employee using a garden hose had extinguished much of the fire prior to the firefighters' arrival.

The fire served as a local reminder that, due to the ongoing dry conditions, .