A senior staff of the garage told this Paper the fire started as early as 2:50am Thursday, while they were asleep on the top floor of the building on McClain Street in Central Monrovia.

Our reporter that visited the scene of the fire said it destroyed many vehicles and the top floors of two adjacent buildings, one of which that that houses the garage, but all the occupants escaped unharmed.

Most of the occupants of the two buildings are Lebanese and Indian nationals.

“We don’t know the actual cause of the fire, but I think it was caused by an electrical shock because the current kept fluctuating throughout the night,” one of the occupants, a Lebanese businessman, said.

 The fire was put off by a fleet of fire trucks of the Liberia National Fire Service. The LNFS has started an investigation to determine the actual cause of the fire that attracted several hundreds of people, who live far and near where the incident occurred.

Monrovia has, in recent months and years, experienced frequent fire outbreaks, many of them blamed on electrical shocks, illegal connections and residents’ carelessness handling of combustible materials such as gas.