At around 7 on Thursday evening, a truck carrying recycling from campus caught on fire in front of Brookings at the intersection of Lindell and Skinker.

Holy smokes! A fire alarm went off in Lee Hall on the South 40 on Thursday. The acrid smell of smoke filled the halls of the residential building, indicating that this was no drill. The fire on the second floor of Lee was caused by a microwave oven. “It was not an intentional fire set or anything like that,” said Don Strom, chief of the Washington University Police Department.

According to reports from South 40 residents, responded to second floor of Lee Dormitory earlier today and have since left the scene. A fire alarm was triggered when stairwells became filled with smoke and the smell of burning.