WINDHAM – Firefighters from Gray, Raymond, Standish, Gorham, Westbrook and Windham gathered on Finley Road in Windham Tuesday night to battle an apparent chimney fire that burned a home owned by Jean Finley.

No one was injured in the fire. According to Windham Fire Chief Charlie Hammond, Finley was in Massachusetts, and her son, Mark, lit a fire in a first-floor woodstove on Tuesday afternoon. Hammond said that a stovepipe connected to the woodstove may have ignited a nearby staircase.

About 30 to 40 firefighters responded to the fire, Hammond said.

“It was a large fire and it was cold,” Hammond said. “The cold makes it harder because you’re going to have to keep warm. It’s tough fighting fires in cold weather because you’ve got ice under foot, and things are freezing up.”

“The hose lines that we carry the water through, they froze up because they hold moisture,” Hammond said. “They were frozen like Popsicles.”

According to Hammond, at least half of the house was totally destroyed.

“Everything is still standing, but it’s burned on the outside and burned on the inside,” he said.