BROOKVILLE -- A mobile home was destroyed by fire early this morning in Brookville.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that deputies and firefighters from Rural Fire District No. 3 were sent to 126 East Anderson Street in Brookville at 1:03 a.m. Tuesday for the report of a mobile home fire.
The residents, John Goracke, 59, and Brenda Freeman, 52, had been burning something in their wood-burning stove and threw in some paper towels, Soldan noted. It is believed that the ashes from the paper towels blew onto the roof and set the mobile home ablaze, he explained.
According to Soldan, $3,000 worth of damage was done to items in the residence. Soldan said he did not have a loss estimate for the mobile home itself.
