Christmas celebrations for two Silver Hill, Christ Church families have been marred by a fire that extensively damaged their housing unit yesterday.
Three days before Christmas, sisters Sandra and Yvonne Harding-Cox, their three children and Sandra’s boyfriend were left homeless and contemplating their next move after the blaze tore through their three-bedroom National Housing Corporation (NHC) unit.
As darkness approached, the sisters said they did not know where they would go for the night.
Sandra explained she and Yvonne were doing the usual Christmas cleaning when just after midday they heard something go “click”.
“All of a sudden the breaker went click. I look up from what I was doing and all of a sudden my sister sings out, ‘Sandra, upstairs got smoke!’ She run to the door and holler for help but in that short space of time, the fire did done take over everything. We could not even get upstairs,” Sandra said.
The sisters said they did not salvage anything from upstairs but were able to get most of the household items from the lower level out of the house.
