A fire Tuesday morning destroyed a Gorham mobile home and possibly took the life of a pet cat.

Crews from Gorham, Buxton and Standish responded to 3 Farrington Road, the home of Jim Appertier, 62, shortly before 9 a.m. Firefighters had the blaze under control just after 10 a.m., but smoke still billowed from the gutted, single-wide green trailer.

No one was injured in the fire.

Appertier, who works at Scarborough Downs, was not home when the fire started. He arrived at the scene shortly after 10 a.m. and frantically ran to his house. Several firefighters held him back as he tried to get into his home to search for his cat.

Firefighters calmed Appertier down after he struggled for a minute to get inside his home. He searched an adjacent shed looking for his pet.

“All I can think of is my cat right now,” he said at the scene. “That’s the only thing going through my mind.”

John Waycotte, 70, who lives up the road on Route 25, owns the home and has rented it to Appertier for several years.

Waycotte said a neighbor called him about the blaze shortly after 9 a.m., and he rushed to the house after calling Appertier at work.

Waycotte also said he was diagnosed with cancer on Tuesday.

“When it rains, it pours,” he said. “I guess I am going to tear the place down.”

Gorham Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre said Tuesday the fire’s cause had not yet been determined.

Gorham police blocked off about a half-mile of Route 25 around the intersection of Farrington Road. They diverted traffic traveling southbound on Route 25 onto Dow Road.

An ambulance and four fire trucks were at the scene.

Gorham blaze destroys home