By David Rosen

Seattle firefighters quickly responded to a garage fire in West Seattle shortly after 11:00 pm Thursday night around the 6300 block of 37th Ave SW on June 23.

Michael Silva the homeowner said, "There was a fire in my office which is in the garage, my wife had stepped outside and smelled something funny and she came inside and said 'You know it smells like something's burning outside.' And I said 'Well the neighbors are having a fire,' so I didn't think of anything of it but she said 'And I hear a beeping'. I jumped out of bed because I thought it might be the smoke alarm in my office and sure enough you could see smoke just billowing out of the roofline. I came back, felt the door to see if it was hot, opened it up and full on smoke, and there was fire in my office, so I could only expect it probably happened in the roof area since I couldn't see any flames immediately."

There were no injuries to be reported.

According to Seattle Fire Investigators the fire was caused by over heated wiring and was contained only to the attic portion of the garage. Damage estimates were set at $30,000.