(AP) — Investigators say lightning started a fire that damaged a school building in northwest corner of the Nebraska Panhandle.

Firefighters were sent to Belmont School a little before 11 a.m. Monday to battle the flames. The school sits a few miles south of Crawford, just east of Nebraska Highway 71.

Jeff Kennedy with the Crawford Fire Department says firefighters from Chadron and Hemingford also were on the scene.

No injuries have been reported.