<img src="http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/policeandfire.gif" border=0 > Fire destroys home, chars 100 acres of timber

March 21, 2008 12:58 am

— GALENA, Kan. — A fire Thursday afternoon that destroyed a rural Cherokee County home also burned about 100 acres of adjacent woods.
The Galena and Baxter Springs fire departments responded to a report at 12:31 p.m. of a fire at the Joseph Yuen home at 8699 S.E. 81st St., about two miles southwest of Galena.
Driver Chad Stapleton of the Galena Fire Department said the two-story, frame house was in flames when firefighters arrived. He said the house was destroyed.
No one was home at the time, and no injuries were reported.
Stapleton said the fire spread to some adjacent woods and kept firefighters at the scene all afternoon. He said about 100 acres were involved.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation by local fire officials and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department.