The Fire Ser­vice has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a fire that broke out at the Scar­bor­ough Li­brary yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The blaze, which be­gan around 2 pm, ap­peared to have orig­i­nat­ed in the roof of the li­brary lo­cat­ed at Gar­den Side Street, Scar­bor­ough.

It was brought un­der con­trol around 5 pm.

Mar­lon Charles, act­ing as­sis­tant di­vi­sion­al chief fire of­fi­cer, told Guardian Me­dia that two fire trucks and crews re­spond­ed to tack­le the blaze, which seemed to be com­ing from the li­brary’s roof. How­ev­er, there wasn’t much smoke on the out­side to alert any­one that some­thing was tak­ing place in­side the li­brary.

Staff and peo­ple us­ing the li­brary had to be evac­u­at­ed. How­ev­er, no one was in­jured.

He said, “Every­thing was brought un­der con­trol, the fire is un­der con­trol and the build­ing. Once there is fire there will al­ways be dam­age but to the ex­tent I do not know as yet.”

Po­lice, as well as the To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency, were al­so on the scene.

The Fire Ser­vice was un­able to say what caused the fire in the fist place.

The cost of re­pairs is yet to be de­ter­mined.