Sibley, Iowa — A former hog building that had been converted into a storage building was destroyed in a fire on Thursday, February 20, 2025, near Sibley.
According to Sibley Fire Chief Ken Huls, at about 2:40 a.m., the Sibley Fire Department was called to the report of a barn fire at 4772 160th Street, about a mile north and about five miles west of Sibley or a mile and a half south and a mile and a half east of Little Rock.
The chief says the fire department saw the building burned to the ground but still burning and some burning bales as they approached the scene. He says the family was out of the area at the time of the fire. A passerby on Highway 9, a mile from the fire called in the flames, and a deputy was called to investigate.
Huls says a couple of goats may have been destroyed in the fire.
The fire department was assisted by the Little Rock Fire Department and the Rural Electric Coop.
He says the cause of the fire is officially undetermined but he thought possibly electrical in nature.
Chief Huls reports that there was about $250,000 in damages, and the building and its contents of several lawnmowers and yard equipment, plus farm equipment, parts, and so forth, were a total loss.
He says the firefighters who responded were on the scene for about two and a half hours.
