WESTERN BUREAU:
THE WESTMORELAND Police and the Fire Department are yet to determine what has caused two fires in the parish over a two-day period.
A golden ager was found dead in the wake of one of the infernos in the parish.
On Saturday night, a property valued at $1/2 million went up in smoke at Hartford district, Whithorn but, up to press time, the police and fire department were unable to determine what triggered the blaze.
Reports from the police are that about 11:55 p.m. on Saturday, residents saw fire coming from the front of a four-apartment board house in the Hartford community. The residents raised an alarm. One unit from the Savanna-la-Mar Fire Department extinguished the fire. The house was not insured.
Meanwhile, the Bethel Town police have not yet made a breakthrough in their investigations into an incident, in which the body of a man was found amidst the burnt-out ruins of his home in Westmoreland.
The dead man has been identified as 78-year-old Rudolph Eulette, farmer of Belvedere district. According to the police, at about 1 a.m. on Friday, residents reported hearing an explosion in the direction of Eulett's house. Later that morning at about 8:30 a.m., Eulett was found dead in the burnt-out shell of his home.
Eulette who lives alone was last seen alive about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
