PARKER, Armstrong County — A fire early this morning destroyed an abandoned barn in the city.

The call came in at 12:45 a.m. as both a barn and brush fire, said Rick Amsler, chief of the Parker City Volunteer Fire Company.

Amsler said it is not certain if the barn, located on South Division Street, was ignited by a brush fire, or vice versa.

“That’s kind of undetermined,” Amsler said.

He said the state police fire marshal will investigate the fire. He said the barn had no utilities.

“It didn’t just spontaneously combust,” Amsler said.

He said crews initially were concerned the brush fire would spread to Parker Personal Care, but Amsler said crews were able to contain it. Firefighters were on scene for two to three hours, he said.

Firefighters from Knox and Seneca initially responded to the fire because Parker firefighters were tied up at a large fire in Eau Claire. Crews from Parker eventually made it to the scene of the barn fire, and firefighters from Petrolia and Perry Township, Clarion County, also responded.