LAKESIDE — A Lakeside family’s home burned to the ground Tuesday night, after the second of two fires in a day overtook the structure about three miles up North Lake Road.

Fire Chief Ted Ross of the Lakeside Rural Fire Protection District said 11 Lakeside firefighters with two engines, a water tender, a medical truck and a brush truck responded at about 3:12 p.m. to a report of smoke at the home at 71399 Heavy Horse Road. They spent about 10 minutes putting out a stove fire with an extinguisher. It caused little damage to the house, Ross said. He said the residents reported the incident after returning home.

Firefighters spent another hour and 30 minutes ventilating the house. No one was injured. The fire burned part of the stove but the house was mostly unharmed except for smoke damage.

“Somehow or another the stove was turned on and something was left on the stove,” Ross said.

The Reedsport Police Department dispatched an ambulance to the scene, which is procedural for a house fire, a dispatcher said, but it did not take anyone to a hospital. Ross said that because the residents have young children, they opted to stay at a motel overnight and have a business clean the house before they returned.

That night at about 10:15, Lakeside firefighters received a second report of a fire at the two-story house. A bigger team went this time.

The 16 firefighters, two engines, a water tender, a medical truck and brush truck, got to the scene and found the house fully engulfed in flames. They called for assistance from Hauser and North Bay rural fire protection districts. An additional seven firefighters and a water tender came from Hauser and two firemen and a tender drove from North Bay.

“It took them until (Wednesday) morning to get the fire out completely,” Ross said. “The house is a complete loss.”

Fire crews remained at the scene until about 5 a.m. No one was injured in the fire, as the residents were not at home. He valued the loss at about $700,000. A staff member from the county assessor’s office said the house was built in 1980.

On Wednesday, the state fire marshal did an investigation with the assistance of Lakeside Fire, but Ross said a report won’t likely be available for a month. The fire started in a different part of the house he said than the initial blaze.

“At this point in time, the cause is undetermined. But we cannot rule out the possibility of it being electrical in nature,” he said. “(There is) nothing suspicious about it except there were two fires in one day.”