JERSEY SHORE — No one was injured, but a two-alarm blaze on Sunday morning destroyed the home of Ethan Crist and his landscaping business, Cutting Edge, at 281 River Road, just outside the borough.

The smoke drifted east for several miles and some residents in the city’s Newberry neighborhood said they could even smell it.

Crist, who lives alone, was not home when the fire was reported about 7:10 a.m.

Crist kept seven of his trucks and some equipment on the first floor while he lived on the upper floor. One truck was with Crist, which enables him to keep his landscaping business running.

Family members and neighbors that lived nearby and rushed to the scene. There were some very frantic moments and it was feared Crist was possibly trapped inside because his mother could not reach him, according to Lycoming Regional police Sgt. Brian Fioretti.

However, Crist did not have his cellphone with him, Fioretti said he was told. Crist was using his family’s skid steer, coming down Main Street (which becomes River Road at the borough-Porter Township line) when he saw the fire, which had already been reported by a neighbor across the street. He immediately went to his grandparents’ home, next to his house, and called 911 to report that he was safe and not in the house.

Joseph Mitchell, deputy fire chief at Citizens Hose, directed operations.

Firefighters initially were able to make an interior attack, “but they were pushed out by fire” within 10 minutes, he said. Right after firefighters exited the property, the second floor began to collapse, Mitchell said. On the first floor, Chris had his office, two SUVs, a dump truck and an ATV, Mitchell said.

Firemen used water from one hydrant on River Road, just across from the driveway, as well as a second hydrant on Main Street in the borough. Mitchell estimated that firefighters pounded the fire with more than 10,000 gallons of water.

The fire was declared under control about 8:40 a.m. Crist had “full fire insurance” on both the business and his home, Mitchell said. Besides the borough’s two fire companies, firefighters from Antes Fort, Nippenose Valley, Woodward Township, Waterville, Montoursville, Avis, Wayne Township, Woolrich, Lock Haven and Castanea responded.

A state police fire marshal will be assisting in the investigation into the origin and cause of the fire. Two recent fires in the region have been ruled accidental. Loyalsock Township fire officials said a blaze that extensively damaged the home at 2078 Northway Road Extension, leaving a family of four homeless, on March 7 was electrical in nature, starting around a power strip in a bedroom. A two-alarm blaze that destroyed a garage on Stroble Lane in Bastress Township on March 22 was caused by a fire that originated in a nearby burner barrel and spread first to grass and then to the structure, officials said.