Aug 19, 2021

Sheriff's office looking for owner of RV that burned east of Salina

Posted Aug 19, 2021 4:06 PM
<b>Firefighters work to extinguish the RV fire.</b> Photo courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office
Firefighters work to extinguish the RV fire. Photo courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post

A recreational vehicle was found burning east of Salina Wednesday afternoon and now the Saline County Sheriff's Office is trying to find out who owns it.

Deputies and personnel from Rural Fire District No. 5 were sent to the 3400 block of E. North Street at 4:11 p.m. Wednesday for the report of a vehicle fire, Saline Count Undersheriff Brent Melander said this morning. When they arrived, they found a 1983 Fleetwood Pace Arrow RV engulfed in flames.

A farmer driving by noticed the fire and attempted to put it out with a fire extinguisher, Melander said. The man also checked to make sure no one was inside, he added.

Melander said the Kansas license plate on the RV expired in 2015 and was registered to someone in Phillipsburg, however, investigators have yet to find someone by that name in Phillipsburg.

Persons with information about this RV and fire are asked to call the sheriff's office at (785) 826-6500, Melander said.