LYNN — A trash fire behind the old Marshall Middle School on Porter Street was quickly extinguished on Wednesday.
The Lynn Fire Department responded to the rear parking lot area of the former school at 19 Porter St. around 12 p.m., after trash and debris in a pit somehow caught fire, Lynn District Fire Chief Stephen Archer said.
Archer said the cause of the fire is not yet known and the blaze is under investigation by the fire investigation unit.