By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina Post

SALINA — An outdoor wood-burning furnace is being blamed for a house fire east of Salina early Tuesday morning. 

Saline
 County Sheriff Roger Soldan said Wednesday that deputies and 
firefighters from Rural Fire District No. 5 were dispatched at 5:02 a.m.
 to a house fire at 2708 S. Holmes Road. The owner of the house, Dustin 
Vance, 42, awoke to smoke in the house and called 911.

A 
wood-burning furnace on the outside of the house had caught the siding 
on fire. While most of the damage was from smoke, a bit of fire did get 
into the house via a window and cause some damage, Soldan said. Total 
damage was estimated at $15,000.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1637773873132.jpeg" alt="Smoke rises from the siding on the house. Photo courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office" />
 <figcaption>Smoke rises from the siding on the house. Photo courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office</figcaption>
 </figure>By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina PostSALINA — An outdoor wood-burning furnace is being blamed for a house fire east of Salina early Tuesday morning. Saline
 County Sheriff Roger Soldan said Wednesday that deputies and 
firefighters from Rural Fire District No. 5 were dispatched at 5:02 a.m.
 to a house fire at 2708 S. Holmes Road. The owner of the house, Dustin 
Vance, 42, awoke to smoke in the house and called 911.A 
wood-burning furnace on the outside of the house had caught the siding 
on fire. While most of the damage was from smoke, a bit of fire did get 
into the house via a window and cause some damage, Soldan said. Total 
damage was estimated at $15,000.No one was reported injured.

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