A concrete block has been thrown through the sliding glass door of a man whose apartment was damaged by fire two nights earlier.

It is not known if there is any connection between the two incidents, but for Somerset resident Kenneth Butterfield, the broken door is one more concern to add to a list of problems that started on Monday night when fire broke out at his apartment in Scott?s Hill Road while he was visiting neighbours.

The cause of the fire, which took firefighters 25 minutes to extinguish, is still being investigated and arson has not been ruled out. It is understood it may have been caused by an electrical fault.

Mr. Butterfield was sleeping at 3 a.m. yesterday morning when the concrete block was thrown through the glass sliding door.

?I heard a big bash and jumped out of my bed. The block had broken through both panes of the sliding door ? it?s still in the room now. My door is all messed up,? said Mr. Butterfield, who does not know why anyone would want to have targeted his door.

Mr. Butterfield immediately called the police. He said: ?The person I thought might have done it didn?t do it.

?I think someone may have tried to frame him.?

According to Mr. Butterfield, it was only about four or five months ago when a pipe was thrown into the opposite side of the same door, though just one of the two panes were penetrated.

Luckily, no one was injured when the block crashed through the door on Wednesday morning.

Fire gutted a room in the same apartment building around 10 p.m. on Monday. ?No one was hurt?, said Mr. Butterfield, who lives in the apartment that was damaged. He had left the building about five minutes before the fire started.

?I was in my neighbour?s house, which is two houses down, when I heard people talking about ?your house is on fire.?

?I didn?t smell smoke or anything but I ran up the hill (to his apartment) and that?s when I noticed it.?

Mr. Butterfield?s car was parked directly in front of the burning room.

?I tried to move my car out of the way but I couldn?t and it got destroyed.?

His windscreen and both of the doors on the right hand side went up in flames.

Feeling the agonising sense of dejection he said: ?I had just put the windscreen, the back window and the driver?s window in.?

He is still wondering what triggered the fire.

Elliot Smith, resident of the upstairs apartment, was at home with his family at the time of the fire, he said: ?I saw it (the fire) from beginning to end.

?We were alerted by a flicker of lights. My daughter, my brother in law and myself came outside, looked around, smelled something and then we heard some crackling in the roof next to the garage. I knew something wasn?t right so we ran over to the garage and saw the fire.

?That?s when I told my daughter to get all of our family out of the house, my brother-inlaw called 911 and we alerted everyone in the complex to get out. We didn?t know how far it was going to go. I started moving bikes that were parked in front of the burning room

?When I first saw the fire it was still small enough to try to put out. So I tried to get out a hose but that didn?t work and it was spreading quickly and started coming out of the windows.?

The bikes were parked behind Mr. Butterfield?s car. ?After we moved the bikes we tried to move the car but we couldn?t get it open because the the flames were coming too close.

?Later, the owner (of the car) came by and was able to open the carbut we couldn?t move it because of the flames.?

As reported in yesterday?s firefighters took around 25 minutes to extinguish the blaze.

?They had problems because it kept spreading every time they put water on it ? but they were able to get it out,? Mr. Smith said.

All the electricity meters for the building were in the room damaged by the fire. Belco workmen were yesterday afternoon working to restore the power supply. Mr. Smith, who is an employee at Belco himself, had set up a temporary power supply in the meantime.

Although the cause of the fire has not been determined as yet, Mr. Smith said: ?According to the report of the investigator, there was a box with loose wires that he suggested may have come together and started the fire.?