TOWN OF MACEDON, N.Y. -- Fire officials say the apartment in the back of a house on Macedon Center Road caught fire Monday morning.
"It took a good four hours before we could deem it under control," said Macedon Center Fire Chief Andy Dohse.
The home was built in the 1820s, and the property belongs to Tommy Packard, a well-known maple producer.
The back apartment was a total loss, and there was significant smoke damage to the front of the home. But the popular sugar shack on the Packard farm is intact.
"We had a lot of manpower on the ground, in and out of the structure. We've called the town in with an excavator to assist in actually pulling the destroyed, burnt structure away from the not-so-burnt, unharmed portion," said Dohse.
Fire investigators will now sift through the rubble to try to come up with the exact cause of the blaze.
While there were no injuries, the Red Cross is helping out the tenant of that apartment.
"Tommy, his family, they're all in pretty good spirits considering what's happened. But everybody's healthy, OK, no one got hurt. So, it could have been worse," said Dohse.