Last White Lakes Mall building catches on fire, $250,000 loss reported

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Topeka firefighters helped put out a fire at the old White Lakes Mall Monday.

Rosie Nichols with the City of Topeka said the Topeka Fire Department (TFD) was called around 1 p.m. on Aug. 19 to the 3500 block of SW Topeka Boulevard on reports of a fire. An exhaust fan in the roof at Mainline Printing, occupying what is left of White Lakes Mall, was on fire following initial reports that a furnace was overheating.

Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming from the structure and quickly put out the fire.