Arson investigators are sifting through the ruins of three barns this morning that were destroyed in suspicious pre-dawn fires east of Hoover Reservoir in Delaware County.
Firefighters scrambled and called for help from other departments amid the reports of three barn fires within a 3-mile radius in Harlem Township around 6:30 this morning, authorities said.
All of the barns appear to be total losses. None had animals in them.
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The fires were reported on Woodtown Road near Green-Cook Road, Rt. 605 south of Woodtown Road, and on Miller-Paul Road between Center Village and Gorsuch roads.
The state fire marshal’s office dispatched a supervisor and two arson investigators to assist local firefighters and the sheriff’s office in determining the cause of the fires, said spokesman Shane Cartmill.
The Harlem Township and BST&G fire departments extinguished the fires with the assistance of other departments, Cartmill said.
Barns, outbuildings and abandoned houses often are favorite targets of arsonists, officials say.
A 17-year-old and 18-year-old from Kenton County were arrested last August in connection with 14 fires set in buildings and fields along the Union-Hardin county line.
