AS THICK BLACK smoke billowed into the air above a St Thomas community yesterday, sounds of sobbing went up as word spread of the death of a well loved member of the close-knit district.
Sixty-one-year-old Carson Hunte was a man appreciated by all in the Jackson area, and the jack of all trades was said to be missed already.
Around 2:45 p.m. yesterday after a massive grass fire spread in the gullies and grasslands surrounding the area, Hunte, an asthmatic, was in his wooden house.
As family friend Gideon Job relayed the information he slumped sadly in the gallery of a neighbour.
“Somebody call me and told me about the thick smoke. So I rushed into his house and he was panting and grunting,” Job said as he mimicked the sounds of his friend. (MR)
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