Jaffrey home destroyed by early morning fire

The cause of a fire that destroyed a home on Thorndike Pond Road in Jaffrey early Saturday morning remains under investigation.

According to Jaffrey Fire Chief David Chamberlain, the fire department was dispatched at 2:38 a.m. Saturday for reports of a fire in a wooded area of Thorndike Pond Road. A Gilson Road resident called 911 to report the fire.

Assistant Fire Chief Keith Dupuis arrived on the scene and found the home at 169 Thorndike Pond fully on fire, and upgraded the call to a first-alarm structure fire.

The house was unoccupied at the time, Chamberlain said, and there were no injuries reported as a result of the fire or the response.

The building was completely consumed by the fire, and there was no damage to the surrounding structures. Chamberlain said the cause of the fire is undetermined as of Tuesday afternoon.

Crews cleared the scene by 5:50 a.m.

Jaffrey Fire Department was assisted on the scene by the Rindge Fire Department, the Peterborough Fire Department, the New Ipswich Fire Department, the Dublin Fire Department, the Troy Fire Department, the Fitzwilliam Fire Department, the Marlborough Fire Department, the Keene Fire Department, the Jaffrey Police Department, the Jaffrey Water Department, the Jaffrey-Rindge Memorial Ambulance and Eversource.