By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
A soldering iron left on a table is believed to be the cause of a blaze that destroyed a $90,000 travel trailer in southern Saline County Wednesday afternoon.
Just after 1p.m. Wednesday, deputies and Rural Fire District No. 2 personnel were called to the 6700 block of S. Tamara Lane, just west of the Kansas Highway 4/Old 81 Highway intersection for the report of a trailer fire, according to Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan. When they arrived, the 36-foot Forest River fifth-wheel travel trailer was fully engulfed.
According to Soldan, the owner of the travel trailer had been soldering speaker wires. She was distracted and momentarily set the soldering iron on a table and left the trailer.
The trailer was valued at $90,000. Contents in the trailer were valued at $2,000.