Chairs sit in the rubble Sunday at the former Elan School in Poland. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

POLAND — Fire crews were on scene of a blaze Sunday morning at the defunct Elan School at Number 5 Road.

Poland Fire Rescue Chief Thomas Printup said crews were met with a fully involved fire at one of several buildings at Number 5 Road, formerly the Elan School. The building was destroyed.

“The fire caused minor damage to a nearby building and had spread into the woods,” Printup said. “Crews were able to keep it from spreading any further.”

No injuries were reported and the building was unoccupied and without power, he said.

An old textbook lies in the rubble Sunday at the former Elan School in Poland. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

The cause of the fire is unknown and is under investigation by the Office of State Fire Marshal.

Fire departments from Auburn, Mechanic Falls, New Gloucester and Oxford assisted Poland Fire Rescue.

A burning building at the Elan School in Poland can be seen from across Upper Range Pond. Chris Gousse photo

The Elan School — a private school for troubled teens opened in 1970 by the late Joseph Ricci, the former Scarborough Downs owner — closed in April 2011 due to declining enrollment after several allegations and testimonies of abuse surfaced over the years.

The school made the news in 2002 in Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel’s murder trial and conviction. Skakel, an Elan student in his early teens, allegedly confessed to classmates that he killed his Greenwich, Conn. neighbor Martha Coxley in 1975.

In 2016, Maine State Police investigated the 1982 death of Elan School student Phil Williams Jr., a 15-year-old who witnesses say died after he was forced to fight in a boxing match with another student.

Filmmaker Todd Nilssen, a former student of Elan, made a documentary about the school called “Last Stop,” which explored the horrors of how students were allegedly treated.