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An elderly man is recovered at the Southern Regional Hospital following an explosion in San Isidro Village in the Stann Creek District. On Wednesday evening around six-twenty, Bella Vista Police were called out to the village where a vehicle was seen engulfed in flames at Garcia’s Butane Gas Depot. Sixty-five-year-old taxi driver, Jose Morales, was […]
Independence Fire Department personnel responded to the explosion, which occurred approximately nine miles away from the station. On arrival, they spotted the thirteen-seater van completely destroyed by fire, but they sprung into action to extinguish the blaze. But according to Deputy Fire Chief, Benisford Matura, the information they’ve gathered so far does not indicate whether […]
While Morales is lucky to be alive, the situation could have turned fatal. The incident has brought into focus the need for safety measures to be exercised at butane gas depots. So who is liable in this case? Morales or Garcia’s Butane Gas Depot? That’s what the media asked Deputy Fire Chief Benisford Matura today. […]
Written on October 11, 2018 | Posted in
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On Tuesday we reported on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change one point five Report. It spelled out a serious warning for the Caribbean and the rest of the world. Today, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, known as the five C’s, issued its own release to echo the warning that Caribbean leaders need […]
There was thunderstorm activity on Wednesday night over central and northern Belize, while other parts of the country experienced winds of about thirty miles per hour and heavy rainfall. The system, according to the National Meteorological Service, developed as a result of Hurricane Michael that hit southern Florida earlier. Today, we spoke with forecaster Angelia […]
Written on October 11, 2018 | Posted in
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The fire station in San Ignacio, which services both of the twin towns, is in a most deplorable form and firemen assigned to that location are required to work daily shifts in less than suitable conditions. The dilapidated concrete structure which sits near the foothill of Buena Vista Street is in the worst state of […]
The shortage of equipment across the fire department has been a contributing factor in the loss of lives, as well as property, in at least two tragedies that have occurred so far this year. In the wake of both incidents there have been promises of additional resources being acquired by the National Fire Service, including […]
According to Castro, they have been able to locate used fire trucks for a fraction of the cost elsewhere in the United States. They are now looking into the possibility of purchasing and shipping those vehicles to Belize. Edmond Castro, NEMO Minister “We sourced some fire trucks, I think, I can’t quote, don’t quote […]
A weather system is looming near Honduras and it is expected that it will become a tropical depression as it passes near Belize over the weekend. The City Emergency Management Organization, CEMO, headed by Councilor Michael Noralez, met this afternoon with officials from the National Emergency Management Organization. Out of that meeting which followed an […]
Written on October 5, 2018 | Posted in
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According to Al Westby, Central Regional Coordinator for NEMO, district coordinators have been asked to identify flood prone areas within their respective communities. River monitors have also been called in to keep watch in the Belize River Valley. In Belize City, Councilor Chips Noralez identified several of the low-lying areas that are prone to flooding. […]
Written on October 5, 2018 | Posted in
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A fire in vicinity of Faber’s Road on Thursday night completely destroyed a small wooden structure reportedly occupied by an elderly couple. The blaze happened on Jimmy Dyer Street sometime around eight-thirty p.m. where sixty-eight-year-old Delvino Vasquez reported that he was asleep with a lit candle inside the residence. He was awoken by the smell […]
Written on October 5, 2018 | Posted in
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The tragic fire that claimed the lives of four members of the Petillo family in Orange Walk Town on Sunday morning remains a talking point in light of numerous criticisms made against the National Fire Service. Once again, the department has been disparaged for not responding promptly to the deadly blaze and when it did […]
A candlelight vigil was held on Monday night at the Petillo’s residence in Orange Walk in memory of the four family members who perished on Sunday in an early morning fire. Town residents came out in numbers in support of the Petillo family. In an attempt to save two of his daughters and stepson, thirty-five-year-old […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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There has been another tragic fire which has resulted in loss of life of several family members. In June, four members of the Nunez family perished in a fire in the Escalante subdivision of San Pedro. Today, the community in Orange Walk Town is reeling from a devastating fire in which a father and three […]
Written on September 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The fire at the corner of Progress and Cinderella Streets in Orange Walk has caused emotional distress. Five adults and seven children survived and have been left displaced. Today, counselors from the Belize Community Counselling Center were at the family’s home meeting with affected family members, helping them get through this difficult time. The Ministry […]
Written on September 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Here in Belize City, a fire wiped out a family home in Belize City on Jane Usher Boulevard, but fortunately there was no loss of life. The family of four, however, lost everything in the blaze which erupted sometime between midnight and one o’clock this morning. The family says that the fire started in a […]
Written on September 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Belizeans living in North and South Carolina in the United States are bracing for the impact of Hurricane Florence. Belize’s Ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Gutierrez, issued an advisory to Belizeans living in the area, stating that all Belizeans in the path of the incoming storm are to follow the directives pertinent to local and […]
Written on September 12, 2018 | Posted in
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Punta Gorda police are investigating an arson which occurred over the weekend. It happened in the village of Crique Sarco at around three-thirty on Saturday evening. Police say that the thatched house was completely destroyed by fire. Owner of the house, Senaida Canelo, told police that the arsonist is a man with whom she has […]
Written on September 11, 2018 | Posted in
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Earlier in the month a massive fire in San Pedro Town destroyed ten houses and left eighty-seven persons homeless. The fire which occurred in the Boca Del Rio Area of the island was deliberately set. The inferno started in one house and spread rapidly to the remaining structures, clearing an entire block. It took about […]
There was further lost of life over the weekend. A toddler died on Sunday after falling into a well in Bella Vista Village, Stann Creek District. Three-year-old Benjamin Mas drowned inside the spring, despite all efforts to revive him. According to Arturo Mas, his son disappeared from sight earlier that afternoon and by the time […]
Written on August 20, 2018 | Posted in
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A fire ignited at an abandoned house on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio. The blaze erupted after three o’clock this afternoon across from the Falcon Field Park in San Ignacio and in proximity to the Town Hall in the western municipality. Residents say that the abandoned wooden building is occupied primarily by homeless persons. […]
Written on August 20, 2018 | Posted in
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A four-year-old girl has been stabilized and will be transported to the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital to recover from severe burns to most of her body. Unique Asia Ramclam was sleeping in her room in Camalote Village, Cayo when a fire broke out on Wednesday evening. Were it not for […]
Victims of the August fifth inferno which decimated ten homes in San Pedro, leaving eighty-seven residents displaced, are preparing to commence the rebuilding process. It is expected that persons who were renting property in the Boca del Rio community that have been affected by the massive blaze, are situating themselves elsewhere on the island. Those […]
San Pedro has a population of twenty-seven thousand residents. The popular tourism destination has been growing by leaps and bounds and the tourism dollar contributes heavily to the economy. The island, however, has been lacking proper fire-fighting equipment for some time and massive fires, at least one recently in which four family members were killed, […]
Written on August 8, 2018 | Posted in
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But there is widespread criticism that these measures to improve the fire response on the island are only just now being put in place when Saturday’s devastating inferno was the third in four years on the island. Back in 2014, sixteen families were displaced during a fire, and then in 2016 eighty-eight persons were left […]
Written on August 8, 2018 | Posted in
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