CANTON – Dozens of firefighters, tankers and engines fought a woods fire off a single-lane dirt road Monday afternoon.

Fire Chief Wayne Dube said three to four acres of pine as well as a cabin had been burned by 4:30 p.m. He didn’t know if the cabin was abandoned or was in use. No one was at the site.

Firefighters from Canton, Jay, Dixfield, Peru and Sumner were relaying water from a site on the perimeter of a pine stand to two four-wheel-drive firetrucks that were able to get to the fire. The property, located in Canton near the town line with Jay and Livermore, is owned by Donald and Shirley LeSuer of Jay, fire officials said.

“Coming in there, we had about two acres involved,” Dube said. They managed to attack the fire quickly, Dube said, but “the wind wasn’t helping us.” He said the LeSeur’s cabin had been flattened by the time firefighters arrived.

Med-Care Ambulance Service personnel were also at the scene.

Several people, including Joe Timberlake of Canton, were using all-terrain vehicles to shuttle equipment and water from a nearby brook to the crew at the scene of the flames. The water was pumped to a pressure truck near the flames.

Dube said once firefighters got to the site Monday around 3:30 p.m., he learned that the fire may have been smoldering for hours before breaking into flames and the fire department notified.

The fire was located off Meadow View Road. The Fire Marshal’s Office was still investigating the fire’s cause Monday night. Dube said it wasn’t known whether the fire started in the cabin or in the woods nearby.