Emergency services were called to the Range Road property, around 40 kilometres east of Bathurst, at 2.17pm.

Upon arrival, around 60 per cent of the home was already on fire, according to Portland Fire and Rescue NSW Captain Ernie Jeffree.

Crews were confronted with a lack of water upon their arrival and were forced to draft water from a dam on the property.

“The only water source out here is the dam,” Captain Jeffree said.

All the people in the home were out of the property before firefighters arrived and no one was injured.

Captain Jeffree said the property’s owner spoke to him and said the blaze started in the home’s wood-burning fire.

“It started in a slow combustion wood burner with a chimney going through the roof,” Captain Jeffree said. “They heard some crackling and then the smoke alarm went off.”

He did add, however, that the combustion fire was not burning yesterday prior to the blaze.

“If you have a big fire in it, it [embers] can get into the roof space,” Captain Jeffree said.

Crews wore breathing apparatus when fighting the fire due to the home’s asbestos fibro sheets. FRNSW crew also sent their personal protective equipment off to be decontaminated after the fire was extinguished.

Four NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) trucks also attended the blaze along with 14 volunteer firefighters.

RFS Inspector Mick Holland said the property appears to have been totally destroyed in the blaze.