LEBANON, Maine — A firefighter was treated for minor injuries during a fire that gutted a home at 147 Champion St. early Saturday morning.

A fire ripped through the two-and-a-half story home for nearly two hours until firefighters from five towns could extinguish the blaze. They responded to the fire at 2:38 a.m.

“Two attack lines were deployed into the building to fight the fire, but were quickly removed due to the rapid deterioration of the building and the extinguishment of the fire went into a defensive mode attacking it with hose streams outside the building,” Assistant Fire Chief Daniel Roy said in a press release.

Crews remained on the scene until 9:30 a.m. to fully extinguish the blaze.

People were living in the home but were not there at the time of the fire and investigators are still working to identify the homeowners.

Other emergency personnel assisted Lebanon firefighters. “Thirty three firefighters from five departments battled the blaze into the early morning hours,” said Roy.