Late night hunger is to blame for more than 30 acres of charred grassland in the southeast part of the county early Saturday morning.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that a call came in at approximately 12:27 a.m. Saturday of a field on fire in the 5400 block of East Kansas Highway 4. Jessica Gravatt, 26, of Salina, was camping with permission in that area and decided to fix some fajitas, he explained.
She started a fire on which to cook, but the fire spread and burned 30 acres of grassland, valued at $2,000, then jumped the highway and burned another acre on the north side at the intersection with S. Cunningham Road. The fire occurred within Rural Fire District No. 1.
Gravatt was cited for starting a fire without a permit.