Lightning may be to blame for a fire that destroyed a hundred year old barn over the weekend, but investigators now say they can’t be sure.
The barn, located at 3120 W. Pine Grove Rd. in Pennsylvania Furnace, caught fire near daybreak on Saturday.
By the time fire crews got to the scene the blaze had reduced the barn to ashes along with everything inside.
“There was a tractor and some yard tools in the barn,” says Alpha Fire Company Chief Jeff Martin. “There were electric wires but there wasn’t any electricity running at the time of the fire.”
No livestock was inside the barn. No one was injured during the fire.
According to Martin, results of an investigation were inconclusive — the specific cause of the blaze could not be determined.
“Because of the barn being burned down when we got there we didn’t have a lot of physical evidence,” says Martin. “We’re leaning towards the fire being caused because of a lightning strike because all the evidence points to that.”
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