Tuesday, April 30, 2024

FIRE PAIN

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TWO FIRES in the space of 24 hours dislocated 22 people, including ten children, and the fire chief is concerned.

Raging flames consumed a house at Murphy’s Pasture, Emmerton, The City Saturday night, and after the conflagration was extinguished by fire officers, adults in a family of eight, which includes a toddler, were pondering their next move.

“We ain’t got no [electric] current. The light was out and we did just using a candle and trying to get money to get the light back on,” one family member told the DAILY NATION.

Hours before, on Friday, the 14-member Bayley family – five adults and nine children ranging in age from seven months to 11 years – watched as the place they called home at Holder’s Land, Bank Hall, St Michael, went up in flames. Only one of the adults was employed. (HLE)

 

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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