A woman who lives on Louise Bevans Street woke up to find her verandah on fire. Fifty-five year old Juanita Gonzalez, woke up at two forty seven a.m. when she smelled smoke and when she checked, her verandah was ablaze. The woman managed to out the fire and save her home. And while she is […]
An explosion sent various persons scurrying at the Fort Street Tourism Village late this evening. A young boatman was injured at the docking port of terminal four while workers at the village were left looking for cover. According to eyewitnesses, a boat engine was running while it was being fueled at the pump. Fumes ignited […]
San Pedro fire officials say while they are unable to determine what caused Wednesday morning’s blaze that destroyed the lower flat of a two storey wooden building, they are certain of where it started. Investigating officer, Miguel Medina told News Five today that the blaze started from the living quarters of Francisco Arceo, who owned […]
In another fire, a car went up in a blaze this afternoon on Map Street. At about four-thirty p.m., Lucrecia Green, a cashier of the Belize Medical Associates, was driving along Cleghorn Street near the intersection with Mapp Street when flames suddenly burst from under the vehicles hood. Green and her female passenger immediately jumped […]
Fire officials have not been able to determine the cause of a blaze that gutted a two storey wooden and plycem house in the D.F.C area of San Pedro Town early this morning. The blaze was first spotted around twelve-thirty and it took fire fighters three hours to extinguish it. By that time, a portion […]
Assistance to flood victims continues to trickle in and last Friday, the Anglican Diocese made a presentation of over four thousand dollars to the farmers of Lemonal Village to assist with recovery efforts from the devastating floods which occurred in October 2008 in the Belize River Valley. Diocesan Secretary, Cecile Reyes, presented several thousand hybrid […]
A family in the south is homeless after a fire completely destroyed their home. Around seven-thirty on Thursday, thirty-three year old Otilia Ferrel was inside her house in the Bonesville Area of Independence when she saw flames coming from the ceiling of her children’s bedroom. The family was able to run out of the concrete […]
A fire which occurred in the Tower Hill Village of Orange Walk destroyed a house on Tuesday morning. Seventy-five year old Adan Roberts said his grandson called him at about ten-fifty a.m. on December thirtieth, and told him that the roof of his house was on fire. By midday, all household items along with a […]
After three p.m. this afternoon, alarms went off in downtown Belize City as a fire engine raced down Regent Street, contrary to traffic. And almost as quickly as it reached the end of the street, it turned around and raced back towards the Swing Bridge. It appeared that the source of the alarm was Belcove […]
In the second fire on Boxing Day, a two storey wooden structure located on Victoria Street in Belize City went up in flames leaving two families without a roof over their heads. News Five’s Duane Moody and cameraman Darrel Moguel were at the scene to find out more. Duane Moody, Reporting When the fire broke […]
Thousands were affected by recent floods in southern, western, central and northern Belize that wreaked havoc in communities, displacing families and causing millions of dollars in damages. Residents are still putting their life back together and today some help came their way. In the spirit of Christmas, the Lifeline Foundation today delivered hampers to fifty […]
In related news, in Belmopan at around midday on Friday the home of Dolly Chan of Iguana Street went up in flames. The cement structure was completely gutted when according to the forty-two year old mother, her eight year old son, Nestor, accidentally fell off a chair on top of the butane tank in the […]
Traffic came to a standstill on Orange Street and Water Lane in Belize City at eleven-thirty this afternoon and it wasn’t because of the works being done on nearby Albert Street. Thick smoke in the air signaled a fire which sent fire engines as well as children and adults clamoring the scene on George Street. […]
In another fire, this time in the Cayo District, villagers of Armenia witnessed a Ford Air Bus Mobile Home belonging to Harvey Lee Wood go up in flames. Not only was the mobile home destroyed, but fifty-eight thousand U.S. dollars in cash and all its contents went up in flames. Wood who is a retiree […]
A three-year old boy was trapped and perished in a fire at an apartment building over the weekend in Belize City. Seven families were left homeless and the Fire and Police Departments are now looking for answers in the heap of rubble that was left behind by the blaze. Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting […]
A family of ten is tonight homeless after one of its own set their home on fire. The blaze started shortly after eleven this morning at ninety-two Antelope Street Extension and shortly after one person was arrested for arson. By the time News Five arrived on the scene; firefighters had already contained the fire, but […]
Also in the north, the Orange Walk police department was the victim of a fire. Around one-thirty on Sunday police visited the police station in August Pine Ridge to find burning rubble where a two-storey wooden building once stood. The officer posted at the site was not there at the time of the incident and […]
And in another piece of bad news, a fire this morning, just before the accident, charred an apartment on the upper flat of a complex in the Fabers Road Extension Area. The apartment complex housed six families; most of them were away at the time. The incident occurred at about ten-fifteen this morning when the […]
Meanwhile, in an update on the recent flooding, the National Emergency Management Organization has embarked on a project to replace household items to Cayo residents affected by the waters of the Mopan and Macal rivers. According to a press release on Monday, NEMO and the Cayo Disaster Emergency Committee distributed butane stoves, gas tanks, sofa […]
It is a little less than a month, since the persistent rains from tropical depression sixteen caused historic rises in water levels. In areas that are bound by rivers such as the Macal, Rio Hondo and Mopan Belize waters rose by eight feet. In the Blue Creek Village water levels peaked at over thirteen feet […]
It is three weeks since the worst floodings in recent times hit the country. The waters came from the Peten area in Guatemala, moved to southern Belize and continued across the country. Many communities have been picking up the pieces following tropical depressing sixteen. And in the village of Douglas, located in the Orange Walk […]
The evacuation in Douglas is only one of the items on NEMO’s agenda. With the recent floods affecting four districts, the emergency organization will have its work cut out for quite some time. Today NEMO Minster Melvin Hulse told News Five that disaster response teams are out in full force, although their focus has shifted […]
There is plenty news to report tonight but first we go to a development in the weather which indicates that another storm is forming in the southwest Caribbean Sea east of Nicaragua and could head our way. The Met Service has an update on this situation. Frank Tench, Forecaster, Belize Met Service “Okay, there’s an […]
And now we turn to the flooding, effective today, all residents of Douglas Village in the Orange Walk District were evacuated due to the possible treat of feet fungi, viral infections, and other serious health risks posed by the flooding. In the village water levels, although stable at some points, are up to eight feet […]
And the National Emergency Management Organization has released preliminary estimates on damages caused by tropical depression sixteen. The Initial Damage Assessment Report at the end of October says that there has been one point three million dollars in damages to household items, another one point three million in housing infrastructure, ten point four million in […]
