One Barn Destroyed, Firefighters Stop Blaze from Reaching Cattle

PORTER TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Multiple area volunteer fire departments responded to a structure fire Wednesday afternoon in Porter Township, Clarion County.

Clarion County 9-1-1 said the call came in at 4:35 p.m. for a report of a structure fire at 1162 Summit Ridge Road.

Clarion Hospital Ambulance and the following volunteer fire departments were dispatched to the scene: Hawthorn, East Brady, New Bethlehem, Limestone, Rimersburg, and Distant (out of Armstrong County).

According to Hawthorn Volunteer Fire Department Chief Curtis Kiehl, one barn was fully engulfed when they arrived at the scene.

“It was starting to spread into another barn behind it, which had cattle in it, but we got them out, and got the fire put out,” Kiehl noted.

One barn and its contents were destroyed, while the second and third barn took some damage from the blaze.

No injuries were reported and no animals perished in the fire.

The source of the fire remains under investigation.

The scene was cleared around 7:06 p.m.