Belize City Elderly Man Homeless after Fire Guts Home

In Belize City, sixty-four-year-old Anthony Mortis is without a roof over his head after the small wooden structure he lived in was destroyed by fire in the wee small hours of Saturday. Mortis lived in a ten-by-ten structure, located behind his sister’s house on Cemetery Road, next to La Popular Bakery. He’s a diabetic and was discharged from the hospital just two days before the fire.  Today when a News Five team visited with him, he said that a curtain inside the house caught fire from a candle he lit inside.

Anthony Mortis

Anthony Mortis, Fire Victim

“Saturday mawning, the curtain ketch fire. The curtain ketch fire and I neva got no water ina the house and that make the blaze. And that start the whole process of the fire.”

Duane Moody

“You mi di sleep when the fire start?”

Anthony Mortis

“No I wasn’t sleeping. The fire start and I mi di try get water, but I couldn’t get the water.”

Duane Moody

“So your hands get burn slightly?”

Anthony Mortis

“Yeah. I neva want something like that to happen but I noh know, it just happened. And I regret it happen. I regret it happen and I sorry it happen.”

Duane Moody

“How long have you been living here Mister Mortis?”

Anthony Mortis

“About three years.”

Duane Moody

“So where to now? Where yo gwen from here?”

Anthony Mortis

“I don’t know. I don’t know where to go from here. I wah try find somewhere or some help, but nobody noh help me yet. I noh get no help yet from nowhere and I need some help.”

Anyone wishing to assist Mortis can call 227-4659.