It was not immediately known what caused the fire on the summer home situation at the end of Singing Eagle Road.

Firefighters from Meredith, Moultonboro, Holderness and Center Harbor battled the blaze.

Firefighters remained on the scene watering down hot spots. The name of the home’s owner could not be immediately determined.

A Moultonboro firefighter could be heard telling his crew over the radio that two trucks were heading out and two more were coming in, which would give them another 2,500 gallons of water.

In addition to what was being hauled in by the fire trucks, a portable pump was installed in the lake to give firefighters as much water as possible to help extinguish the fire.

Sven Carlson, also a firefighter from Moultonboro, said that the summer home, which had been under construction, was fully ablaze by the time they arrived.

Carlson said around 11:30 p.m. they began receiving calls from people in Moultonboro, Holderness and other nearby towns who said they heard explosions and finally that a house was on fire.

Fortunately, since it was a summer home, the owners of the house were not there at the time.

By 1 a.m. this morning, the house was burnt to the ground, but was still fully engulfed. From across the inlet, the fire lit up the slightly overcast sky and the white smoke could be seen billowing up from the fire.

Voices from the firefighters who were onsite could be heard over the cackling of the burning wooden structure.

Jim Forgarty, an officer with the Moultonboro Police Department, said he was standing about 200 yards away from the fire and even so, he could feel the intense heat emanating from the flames.

Master Patrolman Greg Mangers said that the heat from the flames was so intense it melted a fiberglass portable toilet located nearby.

The officers said they did not know the home’s dimensions that was situated on a peninsula jutting out into the lake.

The fire department said this morning that the fire remains under investigation.