ADAMS TWP — A neighborhood jogger was credited with helping to minimize damage to a townhouse that caught fire Saturday afternoon.

The unidentified man was out for a run just before 2 p.m. when he noticed smoke pouring from the two-story house on Lost Valley Drive in the Adams Ridge housing development.

“He heard the smoke detectors going off,” said Chief Bill Hayes of the Adams Area Fire District, “that’s what alerted the jogger.”

The man immediately called 911 on his cell phone. No one was at the home.

“Smoke was coming from the eaves when we got there,” Hayes said.

Authorities did not identify the owners, a couple, who returned home while fire crews were still there. They had left an hour to an hour and a half before the fire call.

Hayes said it appeared that a faulty exhaust fan in the upstairs bathroom started the blaze.

The owners told fire officials that they did not believe they had left the fan on before leaving the house.