Quick action by businessman Troy Williams yesterday averted what could have been a major fire at Pleasant View, Cave Hill, St Michael.
Williams, who operates a nearby construction establishment, dispatched some of his workers to the scene with loads of soil to put out a fire which was started unknown.
The area was that which had been highlighted in Thursday’s Daily Nation where people had been illegally dumping all sorts of garbage and animal entrails and bones. The undeveloped lots in the residential areas are overgrown with bush.
Williams feared the outcome if the nearby power line was damaged by the fire and more so if the fire had not been brought under control quickly then the smoke could have affected students at the University of the West Indies, and St Stephen’s Primary School, both of which are downwind from Pleasant View.
“Illegal dumping has been a problem out there for years,” said the owner of Williams Tools and Equipment Rental Inc. “And I cannot understand why that is so because there is only one way to get in and out – through the cul-de-sac.
“There is a gully at the back that you can enter from but normal vehicles cannot get up in there, it would have to be large, like a truck.”
