Smoke billows out of trash can near bookstore

College activities students rushed to the smoking trash can near the college bookstore Thursday. They poured water into the can.

Posted by The Rampage on Thursday, April 7, 2016

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Photo by: Cresencio Rodriguez

A woman looks into a trash can that had smoke rising from it on Thursday, April 7, 2016.

A trash can near the college bookstore had light smoke billowing out of it Thursday.

The light smoke was slowly rising from the can as students walked by.

College activities personnel quickly rushed to the smoking can with two bowls of water.

They poured the water over the can and put out the source of the smoke.

Campus police was called out to the incident and it is not clear what caused the smoke in the first place.