FENTON, Mo. — A barn fire at a Jefferson County boarding stable early Thursday morning left one horse dead.
According to the Saline Valley Fire Protection District, a call came in just before 1 a.m. Thursday regarding a barn fire at Sugar Creek Ranch, located south of Fenton on Fiedler Lane.
The three-alarm fire was confined to a large barn on the ranch. Several horses were inside at the time, but an employee who lives on site was able to free some of them, the fire district said.
All horses were accounted for, and only one horse was killed by the flames, the owner of Sugar Creek Ranch told 5 On Your Side.
The fire district originally reported four horses were killed.
No people were injured.
The Saline Valley Fire Protection District is leading an investigation. There was no word on the cause of the fire as of Thursday morning.
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