EL PASO, Texas - Federal and local investigators are investigating an early morning fire that destroyed a vacant country club building in Santa Teresa, NM while working to determine whether the fire is linked to reports of mysterious loud booms heard across the region hours earlier.

What we know: First responders dispatched around 4:55 a.m. found the vacant Santa Teresa Country Club clubhouse engulfed in flames, according to the Doa Ana County Sheriff's Office.

Firefighters from Doa Ana County and the Sunland Park Fire Department contained the blaze within 45 minutes, keeping it from spreading to the surrounding golf course.