A fire late Thursday damaged a Winslow home and remains under investigation, a fire official said.

No one was home when the fire at 42 West Palmer Road was reported just after 7 p.m., Chief Mike Murphy of the Winslow Fire Department said in a phone call Friday morning.

Crews arrived on scene to find fire in the front of the structure, Murphy said. They had water on the fire in less than a minute and the fire was knocked down in less than 10 minutes, he said.

“The house is unlivable,” Murphy said. “A lot of smoke and heat damage.”

No injuries were reported.

The Office of State Fire Marshal was investigating the fire’s cause, Murphy said.

The office’s spokesperson, Shannon Moss, said Friday morning that the investigation was still active.

Murphy said he is only aware of one person who lived at the residence. 

Town records from this year’s tax commitment list the owner as Timothy E. Reynolds.

Firefighters from Albion, China, Fairfield, Sidney, Vassalboro and Waterville also responded to the blaze, Murphy said. 

West Palmer Road is a dead-end road off South Reynolds Road, about 2 miles south of the China Road, Route 137, and about 1 mile north of the Vassalboro town line.

“It couldn’t have gone any better, for the distance and where it was,” Murphy said.