July 31, 2007-(Group 3)     A two- alarm fire on Tuesday morning was contained to a trash compactor outside the town’s transfer station. No injuries were reported during the smoky blaze. Firefighters say they responded to the transfer station on Beach Pond Road shortly after 0545 after an employee of the facility arriving for work alerted them. First- arriving crews found heavy smoke from the building but later discovered fire in the trash compactor attached to a side of the building, according to Deputy Chief Tom Zotti. Zotti said that with help from transfer station staff, firefighters were able to move the compactor- and the fire- away from the building where it was extinguished.

     The cause is under investigation by the Wolfeboro Fire- Rescue Department but is not considered suspicious, Zotti said. Firefighters from Tuftonboro, Ossipee Corner, West Ossipee assisted Wolfeboro on the scene.