Crews responded after flames broke out at a home in Lakeville, according to the Lakeville Fire Department.
The fire occurred at a home on Nelsons Grove Road Wednesday afternoon, with firefighters responding to the house around 3:42 p.m.
Sky25 was over the scene as crews worked to put out the fire.
The homeowner's brother said the homeowner was playing cards with her sister-in-law when she heard a propane tank pop.
"My wife and she were playing cards, and the guy came to deliver the gas and the whole thing blew!" Stetson Thomas said.
The owner, a woman in her 60s named Debbie Danforth, told Boston 25 News said a propane company employee was changing a tank when he had an issue with the lid.
"He was trying to disconnect it," Danforth said. "The man who was filling the gas tank said, and then the thing exploded."
She then said she went outside and saw the home go up in flames in seconds, and said she ran back inside the burning home to tell her tenant to get out quickly.
"I ran downstairs and ran outside. This whole part was up in flames, just completely up the side of the house," the tenant named Derrick said.
The homeowner said everything she lost in the fire can be replaced.
"Everyone went over there trying to put it out," Dana Howard, a neighbor, said. "But it was a major torch, it was just blowing up the side of the house spewing right out of the tanks."
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Fire crews said the private neighborhood was tough to get to, as the home sat on a lake at the end of a long, narrow road.
"We had some difficulty getting some apparatus equipment down here because this is a single-lane way," Lakeville Fire Chief Mike O'Brien said. "We had to hand carry a lot of our equipment tools to the scene."
Water supply was difficult for crews, as well, but O'Brien said the crews were able to draft water from the lake nearby.
Meanwhile, Danforth said she'll stay with her brother down the road.
In the end, she said she's just happy to be safe.
"I have a piano in there that probably is totaled," Danforth said. "But it’s just things. They’re just things."
The fire department is still investigating how the propane tank exploded and caused the fire.