Firemen had a very busy day yesterday across Barbados as they dealt with a number of grass, rubbish and cane fires.
Fire officers said they had to respond to fires from early in the morning until late afternoon.
One of the earliest was a grass fire in The Pine Basin, St Michael, where four officers using one tender employed their ingenuity to control that blaze.
In the evening the firemen were in the nearby Wildey area where they successfully contained a house fire.
A National Housing Corporation flat at No. 4 Block E, Bottom Close, occupied by Matthew Blackett, 34, his wife Paulette and their 14-month-old child was extensively damaged.
Quick action by residents and fire officers restricted the fire to the upstairs section of the apartment unit and the contents there while?the couple saved some of the furnishings downstairs.
NHC warden for the area, Ainslie Barnett, said: “The firewalls are working; none of the houses on the other side of the damaged unit was seriously affected.”
