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Two fire officers injured in city blaze

Two fire officers injured in city blaze

January 24, 2022
3:01 pm

Two houses have been destroyed, three others damaged and two fire officers injured in a blaze at Light Foot Lane in the city.

Fire Service Division Officer, Errol Gaskin, led a team of almost twenty fire service personnel and four tenders that responded to the fire.

Newly-elect MP for the City, Corey Layne, described the blaze at a preventable tragedy and promised to implement fire safety programs and to seek help for the affected.

Kemar Stuart, the Democratic Labour Party’s candidate for the city in the recent elections, and who lives nearby, was also among those at the scene.

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