Residents in Uxbridge were woken by a loud explosion when cars were set alight in the early hours of the morning.
London Fire Brigade were called at 3.52am on Thursday (June 2) to St Helen Close, Cowley, when a loud bang was heard and parked cars went up in flames.
Firefighters, in two fire engines, found two motor cars, one van and 10 metres of garden fence on fire in the residential street.
One St Helen Close resident recalled hearing a loud bang near her home.
She said: "The fire brigade arrived at about 4am, fuel was spilling on the road and then that all went up - it was quite shocking to watch.
"There's a lot of problems in the street and cars have been written off.
"It does actually look even worse no
w the cars, well shells, are left this morning.
"I think one is a school van so it's affected their livelihood, my neighbour can't go to work today because they have no car!
"There's so many implications to what happened."
It took around 45 minutes for the fire brigade to control the blaze and it is not yet known whether the incident is being treated as arson.
