2 days ago
Volunteer chainsaw teams have been working hard to clear limbs and trees from private property. According to Salina County Emergency Management several teams have responded to help. Great Plains United Methodist Disaster Relief and Rapid Ministries have been working since Tuesday. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief mobilized quickly and arrived early Wednesday with six chainsaw teams and quickly ...

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The Salina Fire Department continues to respond to the widespread impacts of the severe weather that moved into Saline County Monday night bringing heavy rain and 113 mph wind. According to the agency, initially, when the storm entered the county, Salina Fire Department crews were dispatched to numerous motor vehicle crashes on I-70, predominantly involving semi-trucks ...

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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has issued a boil water advisory for a portion of the Saline Co Rural Water District No. 4 public water supply system located in Saline County. This advisory affects only those customers South of Watkins Road. Customers should observe the following precautions until further notice: Boil water for one ...

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The City of Salina Public Works Department will perform a citywide limb pickup starting Monday, June 15th. According to the City, staff will concentrate on removing and clearing tree debris from residential locations with concentration on removing debris from areas with the most significate damage. Residents are asked to neatly stack tree limbs at the curb on ...

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The Salina Municipal Landfill is now accepting residential tree limbs. To improve traffic flow and safety, after entering the facility, residential customers will be directed along a separate route from commercial vehicles. According to the City, disposal fees will be waived for all loads consisting solely of tree limbs, provided the load is properly secured. Please note ...

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It began in 1985 with 24 bands riffing through short sets on the gazebo in Oakdale Park. The tradition stuck for Salina and the owners of S.M. Hanson Music - and soon became the opening act of the Smoky Hill River Festival. Rick and Steve Hanson joined in the KSAL Morning News Extra with a look ...

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A detached garage was damaged after a gas powered generator caught fire on Tuesday night. Captain Jim Hughes with the Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that a 52-year-old man was using a generator to power his refrigerator inside his home in the 900 block of Halstead Road. Deputies say with a forecast for more rain ...

2 days ago
Deputies with the Saline County Sheriff's Office responded to a number of incidents during the severe storms that ripped through central Kansas on Monday night. Captain Jim Hughes tells KSAL News that a semi driver from Illinois suffered two broken legs after the tractor-trailer truck he was operating was hit by high winds and flipped over ...

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A crew from Rural Fire District #2 responded to a gas stove explosion on Tuesday evening. According to Captain Jim Hughes with the Saline County Sheriff's Office, no one was hurt after a homeowner in the 5400 block of S. Ohio turned on her gas stove. Just before 5:30pm the stove exploded and she called for ...

3 days ago
A Christian, non-profit disaster relief organization that rapidly deploys volunteers to assist communities affected by natural and human disasters is coming to Salina. According to the Eight Days of Hope, they are deploying their Mass Feeding and Rapid Response Heavy teams to Salina, KS, following the destructive storm on the evening of June 8. Eight Days of ...

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Crews continue to work 24/7 to restore power to communities affected by Monday night’s severe storms.  According to Evergy, about 13,000 remain without power in the hardest hit areas, from a high of 120,000 total outages. Rapid progress is being made, and all available crews from Kansas and Missouri are working together to rebuild miles of ...