By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Two teens were arrested after a series of small fires were set in Salina Friday. According to Saline Police Captain Paul Forrester, the first fires were set early Friday morning.
Sunset Park, 700 Sunset Drive
At approximately 12:37 a.m. Friday, officers and Salina Fire Department personnel were sent to the west side of Sunset Park for the report of a grass fire. When they arrived they found some brush on fire. Firefighters extinguished the blaze. Damage was estimated at $500.
Indian Rock Park, 1500 Gypsum Avenue
At about that same time, officers and Salina Fire Department personnel were sent to the north side of the park for a report of a grass fire. Firefighters extinguished the fire. Damage was estimated at $500.
Sunset Park
At approximately 2 a.m. Friday, officers and Salina Fire Department personnel were sent to another location on the west side of Sunset Park for the report of a brush fire. Firefighters extinguished the fire. Damage again was estimated at $500.
Taco Bell, 2315 S. Ninth Street
At approximately 2:45 a.m., officers and firefighters were sent to the restaurant for the report of a dumpster on fire. The blaze was extinguished by firefighters. Damage was estimated at $100.
Two additional incidents occurred late Friday night, Forrester said. They are as follows.
Sunset Park
At approximately 10:59 p.m. Friday, officers and firefighters were sent to the south side of Sunset Park, where someone had set some cardboard on fire under some bushes. The fire was extinguished. Damage was estimated at $500.
Indian Rock Park
At approximately 11:25 p.m., officers and firefighters were sent to the upper part of the park for the report of a grass fire.
While they were there, the person who reported this last fire, a 17-year-old Salina boy, told officers that he had put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher he had with him, Forrester said. A 13-year-old boy was accompanying him.
Damage caused by that fire was estimated at $500.
Forrester said that through the investigation, it was determined that the two boys had allegedly set all of the fires. Police arrested both on six requested counts of arson.