SOUTH HADLEY - A Tampa Street man and his daughter were taken by ambulance to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a fire broke out on the porch of their home Wednesday.

The fire was first reported at 7:38 p.m. at 20 Tampa St., said Timothy Loftus, deputy chief of Fire District 1, and when the first fire truck arrived five minutes later "the front of the building was totally involved."

Firefighters were able to get the blaze under control in about a half hour, Loftus said, but not before the one-story, single-family house sustained more than $100,000 in damage.

The homeowner, Kristopher Owens, 40, suffered some burns while trying to extinguish the fire with a garden hose, Loftus said. Owens was treated and released from Baystate Medical Center, in Springfield, a hospital spokesman said. The injuries to Owens' 12-year-old daughter were unknown but not serious, said Loftus.

The cause of the fire is still unknown because there has been some delay in talking to Owens, but it likely was something on the porch, Loftus said.

One engine and a ladder truck from District 1 responded to the scene along with 27 firefighters. South Hadley Fire District 2 sent an engine company and a Holyoke Fire Department engine covered the District 1 station during the incident. It took about an hour for the fire to be completely extinguished, Loftus said.