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Amelia’s Ward house goes up in flames
Fire early yesterday morning razed a one-bedroom wooden cottage at 2111 Central Amelia’s Ward, leaving in its wake only blackened rubble, and a zinc bathroom and latrine on the property. Several sheets of zinc were also piled up in a corner.
The house was reportedly unoccupied at the time of the fire, as the owner, Holland Cambridge, was reportedly out of the country.
According to reports, neighbours observed the house on fire, shortly after 4:00 hours, after they were awakened by the barking of dogs.
What is left of the home.
“All I hear is pow, pow. When I get up to see why the dogs barking the next thing I see is the big fire coming from the house,” a neighbour related.
Another neighbour said that the owner of the house, who lived alone, had recently left to go and work overseas.
His four children are currently living with his mother in Canvas City, Wismar, because the man has separated from his wife, it was reported.
“It is a real shame the way the house burn down, because I visited the guy once, and he had every little convenience there. But he is always going somewhere. Sometimes he goes into the interior, and now I hear he gone overseas”.
“But somebody used to put on lights and so for him”, another neighbour declared.
Neighbours claimed that there is no way the building could have been saved, as the fire tender took at least 20 minutes to arrive on the scene, by which time the flames had already engulfed the place.
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