HEBRON – A log home on Merrill Hill Road was heavily damaged Friday morning after a fire started in the basement.

The blaze at the home of Dean and Tamerica Sperdakos and their 4-year-old daughter Tianna began around 8 a.m. and brought responders from six fire departments.

Dean was home when the fire started, but was able to get out of the house with a pet pekipom dog. Four cats and a guinea pig were lost in the blaze.

“I’m just in shock,” Tamerica said.

Chief Jim Trundy of the Hebron Fire Department said the house was heated with wood in the basement, but he did not know the cause of the fire. An investigator from the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office was called in.

Trundy said flames from the basement were coming out near a gas grill on the porch, which caused the tank to vent.

“I’m not sure there’s a lot of interior that’s going to be saved,” he said.

A wooden garage separate from the house was not damaged.

Fire departments from Hebron, Paris, Norway, Buckfield, Oxford and Mechanic Falls were called to the scene, along with PACE Ambulance.

Tamerica said the family moved into the house at 367 Merrill Hill Road in 2003, and that the building is insured. She said the family will be staying with her parents in Norway.