There are reports reaching Nation News of more fires in the Upper Carlton, St James area. Two houses and a shop are said to have gone up in flames in the early hours of Wednesday morning. On Tuesday night just after 7 o’clock, a family at nearby Doughlin’s Gap, Weston, lost everything in a blaze. (Nation News)
Investigations continue into house fires in St James
Article by January 27, 2021
Police are continuing investigations into a house fire that destroyed two houses and damaged a third at Upper Carlton, St James around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Peter Hinds lost his unoccupied two-bedroom wooden house while his residence, a wall upstairs and downstairs house, was extensively damaged.
Mark Cadogan of Upper Carlton, St James, owned the third house, a wall and board structure.
Three tenders and 10 officers from the Barbados Fire Service responded and extinguished the fire around 12 a.m.
In a separate incident at Weston, St James, fire destroyed the home of a family of 12.