A King County fire investigator is currently looking into the cause of a barn fire in the 17800 block of Covington-Sawyer Road, which destroyed the building.

The first call to 911 came in at 9:23 p.m. when a neighbor saw flames shooting above the pole style structure and igniting nearby fir trees. Firefighters from King County Fire District 44, Maple Valley and Kent were able to keep the flames from spreading to other structures on the property and had the fire extinguished quickly. A pony in an adjacent barn was rescued by the property owners, though a travel trailer in the barn was destroyed.

No one was injured in the fire.

This semi-rural area is addressed as Covington but is in unincorporated King County.