Firefighters knocked down a two-alarm house fire early Monday morning, but not before a garage was completely destroyed and an adjacent house and several cars were damaged.

Previous Next The fire, in a residential area near Bathurst and Ulster Streets, broke out just before 5:00 a.m. Fire officials at the scene said they believe the blaze started in the garage, or possibly a vehicle inside the garage. ​​Bathurst

One man who lived in the damaged home said the smoke alarm woke him up and he quickly woke up the other residents and raced out of the house. Nobody was injured.

"I kind of heard a bang and then thing I saw sparks," one woman who was walking in the area said.

"It just spread like crazy."

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.