HFD

At 8:39 p.m. Tuesday, City of Hays emergency dispatchers were alerted to a car on fire at 1104 E. 27th. The City of Hays Fire Department, assisted by the City of Hays Police Department, was immediately dispatched.

On arrival firefighters found a fire in the engine compartment of a passenger vehicle. Firefighters used one hose stream to extinguish the fire. The most probable cause of the fire was accidental but undetermined.

Five firefighters staffing two fire trucks responded. The last fire crew left the scene at 9:24 p.m.