OTISFIELD — A two-story log home on Bolsters Mills Road was destroyed Thursday in a fire that drew nine departments to the scene. No one was hurt.
The homeowner, Donald Franke, was at work and his wife was out of town, Otisfield Deputy Fire Chief Shawn Hazelton said.
“When I got there, everything was fully involved,” Hazelton said Thursday. He said the call came in just before 2 p.m. and firefighters were on the scene until about 7:30 p.m. Hazelton called the house “a total loss.”
He said an investigator from the State Fire Marshal’s Office at the scene didn’t know how the fire started, but said it began in the house, located at 721 Bolsters Mills Road. Hazelton said damage to the house was so thorough, the investigator said the cause of the fire could remain undetermined.
According to Hazelton, firefighters from the Otisfield, Oxford, Norway, Paris, Poland, Casco, Naples, Raymond, Mechanic Falls and Harrison fire departments responded to the call. With no running water, tanker trucks raced up and down Bolsters Mills Road, drawing water from the nearby Crooked River and dumping it into reserve pools to be sprayed onto the fire.
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