A pile of rubble is all that remained Friday of a two-family home on Water Street in Oakland following a fire Thursday. Town officials ordered the building razed after the fire was extinguished.

Staff photo by David Leaming Firefighters work around the rear section of an Oakland home where fire may have started that destroyed the residence on Thursday.

Firefighters respond to a home fire on Water Street in Oakland on Thursday morning.

Firefighters from multiple departments battle a fire that destroyed a home on Water Street in Oakland on Thursday.

Homeowner Jerrilene Mullen, center, and her daughter Jessica, right, watch as their home is destroyed by fire in Oakland on Thursday.

A home on Water Street in Oakland is engulfed by flames Thursday morning in this photograph taken by Tara Wolman, a worker at Oakland Redemption next door.

Staff photo by David Leaming Jerry Carson, left, his son, Nathan, and their dog, Shadow, escaped their burning home in Oakland Thursday.

Greg Hammerbeck speaks about seeing smoke and stopping to alert occupants of a home in Oakland that was destroyed by fire on Thursday.

Firefighters fight a smoky and stubborn fire in Oakland for hours after it broke out Thursday morning.