A East Spencer fire truck clipped the front end of a parked Buick in the parking lot of Hendrix Barbeque in Spencer on Wednesday. Firemen were responding to a call about a car fire at a convenience store at Reid Square when the fender bender occured. No one was injuried in the incident. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.

EAST SPENCER — A town fire truck was involved in a bump-up in a restaurant parking lot Wednesday, preventing it from responding to a call that turned out to be nothing.

Firefighters were leaving Hendrix Barbecue in Spencer around 12:50 p.m. when the truck hit an empty car in the parking lot. Mayor Erma Jefferies said the firefighters were responding to a reported car fire in East Spencer.

A police officer responded to the car-fire call and found there was nothing to it. Jefferies went to Hendrix to make sure no firefighters were injured. All of them were fine and the truck appeared not to have sustained much damage.