By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
An electrical issue has been identified as the cause of an early Tuesday morning fire at a local motel.
Firefighters were dispatched at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday to the Village Inn motel, 453 S. Broadway Boulevard, for the report of a structure fire, Fire Inspector Jeff Daily told Salina Post this afternoon.
The fire started in the attic of the middle section of a building at the back of the motel complex, he said. While fire spread within the section of the motel building, well-built fire walls provided firefighters the opportunity to extinguish the blaze before it spread to other parts of the motel, Daily said.
Additionally, off-duty firefighters were called in to help extinguish the fire. The last unit was cleared from the scene at approximately 5 a.m. Tuesday.
According to Daily, the section of the building that caught fire was unoccupied and no one was injured or killed.
Daily said that property damage from the fire was estimated at $320,000, while content loss was estimated at $240,000.