Weston — A fire that erupted at a large home on Weston Road on Thanksgiving Day started in the garage after someone tried to fry a turkey, fire officials said Friday.

The Weston Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the home at 3:42 p.m., the department said in a news release.

The blaze was so intense that it pushed back responding firefighters, John Pokorny, Weston's fire marshal, said Friday.

But despite the intensity of the conflagration, all occupants of the home escaped safely and there no injuries were reported, said Pokorny, who also serves as fire chief.

Since then, the department has spent more than 16 hours battling the blaze, the department said in a Friday afternoon update.

The home is at least 10,000 square feet, according to Pokorny and land records.

Firefighters initially were notified of the fire by an automatic alarm, followed by a call reporting a fire in the garage, he said. By the time firefighters arrived, "the garage end of the house was completely in flame," and crews were driven back by the intense heat, he said.

The fire then extended up into the home and eventually engulfed it entirely, photos from the scene showed.

"It accelerated really rapidly," Pokorny said.

Dangerous conditions and structural collapse have made putting out the fire difficult, the department said in the release. Water supply also stopped for several minutes after a vehicle drove over the water supply hose, the department said Friday afternoon.

Eversource and a gas company also responded to shut off the home's utilities, Pokorny said.

He confirmed the occupants were able to escape and that no injuries were reported among them, or among the responding firefighters.

The fire has made the house uninhabitable, the department said.

The call drew in multiple agencies from surrounding towns including Ridgefield, Redding, Wilton and Westport, Pokorny said. Some of those crews were responsible for covering the town's fire department while local crews were at the scene, and responded to one other non-fire event while the fire was ongoing, he said.

The West Redding Fire Department, the Georgetown Fire Department and the Easton Fire Department also provided support, as did the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, the department said.

Crews remained on scene Friday and were putting out remaining hot spots, Pokorny said.