By JAMES BELL
Hays Post

About 5:15 p.m. Saturday Hays emergency responders were dispatched to a structure fire in a residence in the 200 block of Ash St. in Hays.

The reporting party told Hays dispatch a fan had caught in on fire inside a bedroom and all occupants and pets were outside of the home according to scanner traffic.

Utilities were cut to the residence while emergency responders were on scene.

By 5:45 p.m. the fire was reported out after a check of the entire building was completed.

An investigation is ongoing.