Peterborough firefighters responded to a report of a fire Monday night and found a cabin fire at Brantwood Camp in Greenfield.
“We had a difficult time finding the fire,” Peterborough Fire Chief Ed Walker said Tuesday morning.
When firefighters arrived they found the camp’s director’s cabin had been destroyed by fire, Peterborough Fire Chief Ed Walker said Tuesday morning.
“The cabin was pretty much on the ground when we got there,” Walker said. “It was nice and flat. It had come down. We had water in our tanker and that was sufficient to put it out. … The cabin is a total loss.”
Peterborough firefighters were dispatched at 10:33 p.m. on Monday after a Union Street resident, who lives near Nature’s Green Grocer, reported seeing a fire in the east, in the direction of Old Street Road.
Firefighters searched Sand Hill Road, Old Greenfield Road and Holt Road in search of the blaze and eventually found it around 11 p.m. on Brantwood Road just over the town line in Greenfield.
Peterborough firefighters stayed to doused the blaze, and cleared the scene after an hour and and half.
The Greenfield Fire Department was notifed of the fire, Walker said.
Walker said the cause of the fire is undetermined.
“Nothing suspicious that we’re aware of,” he said. “They recently reopened the camp, getting ready for the summertime. No one had been in the cabin for for a few days that the director knew.”
The director’s cabin was used by the camp director as an office as well as for some storage, Walker said.