Area 2 Barn Fire Kills 10 Animals 1/21/2008     Kevin Linhart, 32, lost about $40,000 worth of farm equipment and 10 farm animals because of a fire at his family’s barn. He believes a heating lamp caused the blaze. .. A family also lost all its farming equipment in the blaze, which broke out about 5:30 a.m. on Hope Acres Road.         Everything in the family barn, which sat adjacent to the Linhart family home, was lost or ruined in the fire. The barn's maroon cinderblock walls are all that is left. The roof was disintegrated, and everything inside was charred to the point of being unrecognizable. No one was injured. Owner Kevin Linhart, 32, is thankful for that, but he can't help but feel disappointed about everything his family lost. He lost four goats, three sheep and three newborn goats, plus about $40,000 worth of machinery. A farm tractor, John Deere Gator, riding lawnmower, hundreds of feet of fencing and an antique plow were destroyed by the flames, he said. He said the barn was fully involved by the time he noticed the flames. Linhart smelled smoke when he woke up this morning about 5:15. He walked throughout his home trying to find the source of the smell, checking on his three young children and his wife but at first could not figure out where the smell was coming from. Then he looked out his window and saw the family barn with bright orange flames shooting out of the windows. Linhart called 911 about 5:30 a.m., and Metro 911 dispatched several fire engines from Pinch, Clendenin and Frame volunteer departments a few minutes later. The farmer knew it was much too late to save anything inside the barn, so he had to watch the fire consume his equipment and animals. The cause of the blaze, he concluded, was a heat lamp set up within the barn to keep the newborn animals warm during the recent cold snap. "You have to keep the babies under heat when it gets this cold," he said. Linhart and his family had moved into the house on Hope Acres Road only about six months ago from the other side of the river. "The reason we bought the farm was for the barn," he said.  "It had 12-foot lofts in it." While Linhart is upset about the loss, he said wife and children would probably be more affected. "They're upset," he said. "My wife is probably the most upset. (The children) are still too young to realize what's going on.  They've already asked when I'm going to buy them some new ones." The animals were not bought for farm use, but instead for the enjoyment of Linhart's kids, he said. "The babies were just inside playing around with the kids last night," he said. Linhart does have insurance on many pieces of equipment in the barn, but he doesn't know if he is covered for everything. "Hopefully farm insurance will cover it," he said. "I don't think everything is insured." Linhart did find the silver lining in the midst of the unfortunate situation. He said he was glad it wasn't his home with his family inside, and he is now taking measures to prevent anything like that from happening. "The first thing I'm going to do today is buy all new smoke alarms." The fire departments cleared the scene about 8:15 a.m., said Sonny Wagoner, chief of the Pinch Volunteer Fire Department. Although the remains were still smoldering, Wagoner said the cold weather would not allow it to reignite.