SALINE COUNTY —Authorities are investigating the cause of a stock trailer fire in Saline County.
Just before 6p.m. Thursday, Saline County sheriff's deputies we were dispatched to the 600 Block of E 5th Street in Gypsum, in reference to a trailer parked on an inhibited section of property on fire, according to Saline County Sheriff's Captain Jim Hughes.
Responding units located a 30 foot Trailmaster stock trailer that was nearly full of cardboard that was to be recycled on fire. Rural Fire District 1 and the Gypsum Fire Department extinguished the fire. The owner, Christopher Behrens, Lincoln KS, who was out of state advised the value of the trailer to be $4,000.
The cause of the fire is currently being investigated as suspicious.