Fire destroys home at Cedar Heights, Vieux Fort

An early morning blaze at Cedar Heights, Vieux-Fort has reduced a three-bedroom dwelling house to rubble.

The occupants of the house were only able to save a fridge, a stove and the clothes they were wearing at the time of the blaze.

“I was watching television when I realized the television went off. I did not take it for anything because I thought it was just a power outage. But I then heard a cracking sound and then I heard my sister screaming, so I opened my bedroom and saw flames in the house,” Clifford recalled, adding that at one point he could not see anything in the house because it was engulfed with smoke.

He said he managed to get out of the house and immediately checked on his family, who was all safe.

Clifford said he wanted to go back in the house to try to save a few more items but was advised against doing so by his sister.

“I panicked because I never experienced a fire. I have only seen it in the news,” he said.

Clifford said before the fire officers had arrived at the scene, a neighbour assisted him in trying to extinguish the fire by sending buckets of water in it, but it was not of much help.

The fire officers finally extinguished the fire.

The cause of the fire is unknown, but Clifford is wondering whether an electric fan caused it in one of the bedrooms.

The grieving family is now appealing to the public for assistance. Persons willing to assist are asked to call any of the following numbers: 7240031 or 7167228.