Nicholas Richards, Gleaner Writer
RESIDENTS OF Negril are mourning the death of a toddler, Javaughn Brissett, who was killed in a fire that razed a five-apartment board-and-concrete structure at Whitehall Estate in Negril on Sunday night.
Fourteen people were left homeless by the fire.
A district officer of the Negril Fire Station said that at 11:55 p.m. a resident turned up on foot to report the fire.
The officer said a unit from the Negril Fire Station was immediately dispatched to put out the blaze which had spread to two adjacent dwellings.
Police investigators believe that a candle left burning on a dresser was the cause of the fire, which took firefighters about three hours to extinguish. Damage was estimated at $1.5 million. The house was not insured.
