A FIRE VICTIM is contending that had either the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of the Environment responded to repeated requests for a derelict house in Chapman Street to be destroyed, two families would not now be homeless.
That suggestion has come from Azez Degia, one of 14 people affected by an early morning blaze that gutted three houses and damaged three others.
Degia, 58, along with his wife, mother and son are now homeless after the fire, which began around 2:30 a.m. destroyed their insured three-bedroom wooden house.
Thirty-year-old Cleon Dejonge and three family members are also homeless after the fire ripped through their wooden home.
The third house destroyed was a derelict where the fire reportedly started on the corner of Chapman Cross Road, before spreading to Bejonge’s home and then Degia’s. (RB)
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