Five Homeless Following Fire

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Three children, ages three, five and six, and their parents are today without a home after the two bedroom timber house in which they lived at Bourbon, St Lucy was destroyed by fire
today.

Two cats, three dogs and a number of fish also lost their lives in the blaze, which started just after noon. Shelly-Ann Skinner and Edwin Lampkin, surrounded by family and neighbours, looked at the ashes that remained of their home, clueless about what they were going to tell their sons or where they would sleep tonight. The house was not insured.

Skinner said her boyfriend left home around six this morning, followed by her and the children two hours later. Just after noon, they each got a call that their home was on fire. But by the time
they arrived only five dogs and one cat were saved from the inferno.

Lampkin explained the dogs that died in the blaze were tied to their kennels while the cats and fish were inside the house. He added that a number of people from the area tried to save the
house and animals, but the the heat was more than they could handle. “As fast as it start it was gone,” said one resident.

Clutching one of the surviving cats close to her chest, Skinner called her Pretty Girl, but she was thinking of renaming her Lucky, since she left her outside this morning. “Her sister and adopted sister are all gone,” the woman said.

Two water tenders from the Weston, St James and Arch Hall, St Thomas stations and ten fire officers under the command of Divisional Officer Wilfred Marshall responded to the blaze. (JRB)

Source: www.barbadostoday.bb 18/03/2010

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