Mentally Ill Patient Left Homeless Following House Fire
A wooden structure was completely destroyed by fire this afternoon on St. Joseph Street in Belize City. The fire began around two-thirty and quickly engulfed the home. By the time fire fighters arrived on the scene, the home was already in ruins. However, they were able to prevent the fire from spreading across to neighbouring homes. We spoke with Darlene Murphy who lives next door to the destroyed property. She informed us that her mentally ill brother occupied the home and that this is not the first fire inside the home.
Darlene Murphy
Darlene Murphy, Neighbor of the Fire Victim
“I left home bout twenty pass one. By one thirty I get a call she go around by your house, because I work right round the lane. By the time I turn round I done see it already. I she, bway look yah. I drooped, I mih think dah my house. My son neva want I come so he hold me over deh til the police seh I could guh check. My house by the kitchen get scorched and the water, the only thing that get damaged, water got in the stove because my stove deh right part deh put the hose so my house neva get burn and some lee water and like that, but by the kitchen scorched up.”
Paul Lopez
“So who lives in this house who house was this?”
Darlene Murphy
“Everybody know Brenty, just seh Brenty and deh wah tell yo dah who. The last time my mom was alive three time he the burn it with my mah een deh. Now, Brenty left something light in that house and ih ketch fire. I like guh up deh but this time I neva gone up. I mih dih expect it, but I only mih the wait because I always tell ah yo cant the leave things up deh Brenty, don’t do it. Nuh leff nothing light in this house , you will burn me out and burn out yourself. Well, unfortunately he got bun out. It’s still a lose cause weh ih gwen now?”
Paul Lopez
“With you?”
Darlene Murphy
“Hell no, put the hell to it. No, no, no, no, only me and mih son. Me and my son live up there.”
Paul Lopez
“So now he will have to find a place.”
Darlene Murphy
“Somewhere to go, he will have to find somewhere to go.”
