TEN PERSONS, including children, were left homeless yesterday after a fire, believed to have been started from a stove, destroyed six houses at 29 Hannah Street, Heroes Circle, Central Kingston.
When a Gleaner news team arrived on the scene, two fire units were seen fighting the blaze which had already razed a section of rustic wood and zinc houses, while men ran around frantically, trying to help to put out the blaze and save whatever items they could. Two persons were rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital after suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation.
NOTHING SAVED
A bewildered young woman, who was seen clutching a gas cylinder, quarrelled that "di whole a mi baby clothes dem bun up...mi nuh save nutten only di (gas) cylinder and mi fridge mi could a tek out."
District Officer Samuel Barton of the York Park Fire Station said the cost of the damage was not yet ascertained, neither was the cause of the fire. Two units from the York Park Fire Station and one unit from Rollington Town put out the blaze.
Dexter Phillips, of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, who compiled a list of the affected persons, said "what we are going to do is to offer emergency assistance where we give them food stuff and an emergency grant of no more than $10,000, depending on the extent of the loss sustained."
