Unoccupied home, garage destroyed by fire in rural Sweet Springs

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

By ERIC CRUMP/Editor

Sweet Springs firefighters and a Saline County sheriff's deputy responded late Monday afternoon, Oct. 5, to a report of a house fire at 270th Trail and Garland Avenue in rural Sweet Springs, according to a sheriff's department report.

They arrived at 5:06 p.m. and found a house and garage engulfed in flames. The house had already collapsed and the detached garage collapsed soon after firefighters arrived, the deputy said.

The owner of the property, Edward Dysart, also responded to the scene and informed the deputy that the home had been unoccupied for two years and did not have utility service or insurance.

The remains of the buildings were too hot for responders to conduct an investigation into the cause of the blaze, the deputy said. The investigation will be initated at a later date, he said.

Contact Eric Crump at marshalleditor@socket.net

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Are you sure it did not have insurance-- isn't edward dysart the insurance guy

-- Posted by workingmom on Tue, Oct 6, 2009, at 10:09 AM

Response by Eric Crump/Editor:

That's what the deputy reported that Mr. Dysart said.

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