Fire At Tropical Laundry

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Scores of employees at Tropical Laundry in Country Road are on the breadline after an early morning fire on Friday.

Fire officials told CBC News they received a report that the business was on fire around five Friday morning and dispatched a number of officers to the scene.

The owners of the laundry said they were told the building was on fire by a guard in the wee hours of the morning.

The fire service was also informed and firefighting teams deployed to fight the raging blaze but they could save little.

Yolande Walrond, the assistant accountant says the company employs just over a hundred and eighty workers some of whom will be displaced as a result of the blaze.

"We have 186 employed, including our five depots across the island. This will be a major blow to all of us. Plus we are the number one laundry in the island. We do all of the Defense Force uniforms, the very prime minister clothes in there right now, we could say burn up. Everybody you can think of from all walks of life we had in there. My main concern is the Defense Force clothes. Almond Beach, Casuarinas, the Hilton clothes in the there, you name it, all gone."

Managing Director Jeffrey Hoyte says the incident comes at a time when business at the Country Road facility was improving after controversy involving the Louis Lynch Secondary School.

He's also insisting that residents should not be concerned about their health as a result of the fire.

"Unlike most laundries we had the latest in dry cleaning equipment. We used less perc than any normal laundry because we had very latest and equipment."

The company is still awaiting an assessment of the damage while fire officials investigate the cause of the fire.

Source: www.cbc.bb

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