WILTON — Sparks from a wood stove chimney were blamed for starting a woods fire early Wednesday evening at the Countryfolk Music Theatre compound beside Route 2, Sonny Dunham, Wilton fire chief, said Friday morning in Auburn.

The fire spread to four of six additions to owner Larry Bisbee’s camp and destroyed them before firefighters could set up water shuttles and extinguish the inferno that shot flames 40 to 50 feet in the air, he said.

Dunham estimated the damage to the uninsured structures at between $10,000 and $15,000. There were no injuries.

“It was a total loss, he lost everything,” Dunham said of Bisbee. “It was caused by sparks out of the chimney that started the woods and grass afire beside the house and burnt the house.”

Dunham said that Bisbee went to a store and returned at about 6:30 p.m. to find the side-by-side building additions fully engulfed.

A neighbor across the street spotted the fire and called 911, which prompted a multiple-department automatic mutual-aid response, because it was a structure fire.

Firefighters from Wilton, East Dixfield, Dixfield, Jay, Livermore Falls, Temple and Farmington responded. Because there were no hydrants, Dixfield firefighters set up a pumping station in a brook, filling tankers from other stations to shuttle water to the scene, Dunham said.

“That worked out very well,” he said. “We had plenty of water.”

They used a “surround and drown” attack to extinguish the blaze, keeping firefighters out of harm’s way.

Dunham credited Bisbee with containing the fire and preventing it from spreading into the woods before firefighters arrived, where it could have become a major forest fire.

“When he got there, the woods and grass were afire around the camp, and he was raking it toward the camp just to keep it out of the woods, because it would still be going right now if it was in the woods,” Dunham said.

“There’s no stopping it when it gets out in that area. He did a good job.”

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