Great Bend Fire Department responded to back-to-back fires on Easter morning, Fire Chief Mike Napolitano said.
An electrical short in a ceiling fixture caused a fire that damaged a trailer house at 215 Fruit St. Sunday morning. Firefighters were summoned at 4:03 a.m. and quickly extinguished the fire in the ceiling. Damage was estimated at $3,500.
“As the crews were getting back in the station from this fire, they were called to a report of a vehicle fire on an oil lease road north of Walnut Bowl,” Napolitano said. They arrived to find a two-door passenger car in flames, with no occupant in sight.
Firefighters were also dispatched to Mid America Feeders on North McKinley St. at 6:03 a.m. Monday, because several large round hay bales were burning. “We worked with the owners to remove the bales to a location where they could finish burning and not expose the rest of the stack,” Napolitano said.