Stephanie Elliott, Gleaner Writer
MAY PEN, Clarendon:
UP TO yesterday, the Clarendon police had not determined the source of a fire that claimed the life of 92-year-old Eda Wilmot of York Town
district in the parish on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the police have confirmed that in another incident also on Saturday, three members of a family were killed when a mattress was ignited which later engulfed their house.
In the other incident, the senior citizen Eda Wilmot, who was blind and incapacitated, was at home with her daughter-in-law when the fire started approximately 2:00 p.m. on Saturday.
The daughter-in-law was asleep in her room when the fire started. Efforts by residents to put out the blaze were unsuccessful and Miss Wilmot was burnt to death.
MATCH LIT
Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) liaison officer for Clarendon, Constable Camay Watson told The Gleaner that approximately 1:00 p.m. on Saturday a five-year-old boy lit a match which fell on to a mattress in the bedroom of a house located in Sunrise district near Sandy Bay, Clarendon.
The mother of the child discovered the blaze but could not put it out. Twenty-year-old Alicia Grant, her 18-month-old daughter, Nedimere Thomas, and Ms. Grant's five-month-old sister Cody Grant were caught in the blaze and perished.
It is reported that Alicia was trying to rescue her child from the burning house when she encountered difficulties opening a locked grill and both were burnt to death.
