Roofing materials caught fire in a commercial trash bin and prompted evacuation of Lincoln's Municipal Services Building near the Lincoln Airport on Thursday morning, a fire official said.
Smoke and flames coming from the trash bin at 901 W. Bond St., where a crew has been replacing the roof, were so large it appeared the building had caught fire around 10 a.m., Lincoln Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Jeremy Gegg said.
Fire crews doing training there initially called for a second-alarm response because they couldn't immediately see where the flames were coming from, Gegg said.
They went back to their rig on the other side of the large building and then found the fire contained to the trash bin, he said.
The crews extinguished the fire before other fire rigs arrived, Gegg said.
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The cause of the fire wasn't immediately clear.