After undertaking major repairs at her home recently, Miranda Taitt got devastating news yesterday while at work.
Her home was on fire.
By the time the vegetable vendor got to her Hinds Hill, St Michael address all had been lost, money, documents, appliances, and, most of all, her home.
“Nothing was saved, documents, the money gone,” a tearful Taitt said as she looked on at the gutted house.
Two fire tenders and ten fire officers responded to the 9 a.m. call and within 15 minutes of arriving at the scene restricted the blaze to just the one house. One frontline fireman was slightly injured when his gloves overheated.
Taitt lived in the house with daughter Clover who was in the bath at the time of the blaze but escaped with minor injuries to a leg and face.
Paramedics also responding to the fire treated the two at the scene.
Taitt told the Saturday Sun she could not account for the source of the fire.
“I don’t know… I was doing repairs and it could be a electrical problem,” she said.
The four-day-a-week vegetable vendor said she was at her post in Cheapside Market when she got a call and a friend brought her to the area where she has lived for more than 40 years.
She was greeted by the sight of firemen fighting to extinguish the blaze which had already damaged the insured house beyond repair.
“I don’t know how much I lost but I know it is thousands, thousands,” Taitt said.
At the time she had given no thought to where she would stay but said she had relatives who lived in the area. (AC)
