In just a couple weeks, construction will be complete on the borough's new cardboard compactor.

An expensive piece of equipment was destroyed by a fire at a cardboard recycling facility in northeast Lincoln on Tuesday.

PORTAGE — Portage firefighters quickly extinguished a fire within a trash compactor used to crush cardboard outside of Menards, 6220 U.S. 6, Thursday afternoon.

LFR said a worker was trying to dislodge something in a cardboard compactor when he fell 16 feet through the machine.