A large barn on Flyte Road caught on fire Tuesday afternoon, destroying cars and tools.

Assistant Fire Chief Paul Warnick, of Blue Ridge Hook and Ladder, answered the call for a fire at 206 Flyte Road shortly after noon."It was fully engulfed when I arrived," Warnick said.Additional companies on the scene included West End, Jackson, Polk, and Wind Gap."I'm from a neighboring fire company that came down to bring the water," Keith Elliott, second assistant chief of Jackson Township, said. "Being a rural area, they've got to truck all this water in. We had two trucks down there."The structure collapsed "probably within 20 minutes of dispatch. It fell shortly after we arrived on scene," Warnick said.Homeowner Butch Kresge, who has lived at the home for over 50 years, said he did not know how the fire started."I had just gone in the house to take a shower. I took a shower, I went out to go to the doctor, and then the barn's on fire," Kresge said."I was just coming home when I saw this pile of smoke coming up. I didn't realize it was coming from the house over here," Bob Andrew, Kresge's brother-in-law, said.Kresge had just recently finished renovating the barn, which contained countless possessions acquired over half a century."We just had the barn restored, totally," Kresge's wife Linda said. "It was all re-sided. My husband was doing all the stonework on the outside, and now it's gone. He lost cars that were in there, the lawnmower, tools galore… My husband was in business for 50 years."Thankfully, the fire companies on call were able to contain the blaze to one structure."I'll tell you what," said Kresge as he pointed to a smaller adjacent barn. "If it would have been another 10 minutes, that would have caught on fire."An investigation may be conducted in the near future to determine the cause of the fire. Although Warnick said the barn was a "total loss," no one at the scene was injured."You hate to lose things, but at least no one was hurt," Andrew said.