Fire leaves seven homeless in Belize City
This evening a fire on Waight Street in the Port Loyola area has left a family of seven homeless. The fire started around three forty-five and quickly engulfed the wooden house. According to John Garraway, the owner, he had just left the house to go to a shop and it was when he was walking back home he was told that his house was on fire.
John Garraway, Fire Victim
“Well to my point of view, I don’t know what happened really because I just came in and I went through the house nothing was on in the house, no stove, nothing was going on. And I went to the grocery shop. While coming back from the grocery shop somebody said the house was on fire and I said, “My house on fire?” They said, “Yes.” I looked to this side and I see smoke over the other house and I said, “Wow!” So when I come I see everything up in smoke and I don’t know what caused the fire, how it started.”
Q: “Did you all manage to save anything?”
John Garraway
“From my point of view, I don’t think they saved anything from inside the house itself, maybe only the TV and the chairs that were in the living room.”
Q: “No one was at home though?”
John Garraway
“Well my daughter was at home and some of her friends were sitting under the house here so I don’t know what started the fire.”
No one was injured in the fire. According to Roy Bowen from the Department of Human Development, the department will be putting up the family for the weekend and next week, they will assess the situation to see what kind of financial assistance can be given to the family.
