Page 28 - Fire Ser News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Suspect in Port of Spain fire still in custody by 20201230 Fire officers at the scene of the fire in downtown Port of Spain on Tuesday 29 December 2020. (Image: ABRAHAM DIAZ) The Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed that a 42-year-old Mor­vant woman is still in po­lice cus­tody as­sist­ing de­tec­tives with their in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a sus­pect­ed ar­son at­tempt in the Port-of-Spain area yes­ter­day. The woman was held by par­ty of of­fi­cers at­tached to the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) who were on a rou­tine pa­trol in down­town Port-of-Spain when they re­s...

Christmas blues for Castara family as fire leaves 10 homeless by Camille Mc Each­nie Ten peo­ple, in­clud­ing two mi­nors, are now home­less fol­low­ing a Christ­mas Eve day fire in Cas­tara yes­ter­day. It’s the sec­ond time in less than one month that the fam­i­ly was struck by fire, a fam­i­ly mem­ber told Guardian Me­dia. Ac­cord­ing to the T&T Fire Ser­vice, the fire, which start­ed just be­fore noon, de­stroyed 96 per cent of the house owned by Glo­ria George.

Midday blast at NP Sea Lots compound 3 hospitalised Kalain Ho­sein Thick, black smoke bil­lowed high in­to the skies across Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, as thou­sands of gal­lons of fu­el burnt in­dis­crim­i­nate­ly fol­low­ing an ex­plo­sion at Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um’s Sea Lots com­pound. Three peo­ple, said to be con­trac­tors per­form­ing main­te­nance work on the com­pound at the time, were in­jured in the blast and were quick­ly whisked away from the scene for emer­gency med­ical care.