Photos: Angela McLaughlin.

A huge fire destroyed an old home in Orleans this afternoon, prompting a full-scale response from Calfire and local fire agencies near the downtown Orleans Mining Company restaurant.

The call originally went out at around 12:30 p.m., and by the time firefighters arrived the house was already in flames. Firefighters went to work preventing the flames from jumping to nearby structures, including the restaurant. 

Local resident Angela McLaughlin, who works across the street and documented the whole thing on her Facebook page, told KHUM’s Bayley Brown this afternoon that the house that burned was attached to the restaurant and other buildings in the Orleans Mining Company complex.

Calfire Department Chief Charlie Hanes told Brown that his department was joined by Orleans Fire and Six Rivers National Forest crews in containing and battling the fire, which has now been extinguished. Hanes said that crews would likely be on scene well into the evening, mopping up.

There is no word yet on the cause of the fire. No one was injured.