Fire destroys upper St Andrew apartments, damage Westmoreland dwelling

Monday, September 29, 2014 | 11:21 AM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Fire Sunday night destroyed three apartments in upper St Andrew and partially damaged another.

Information reaching OBSERVER ONLINE is that residents saw smoke coming from the apartment structure and called the fire department. It is said that a unit from Half-Way-Tree responded to put out the blaze.

Damage are estimated at 25,000,000. It’s not known if the building was insured.

Meanwhile, in Westmoreland, the first floor of a two-storey dwelling was also destroyed by fire Sunday morning.

OBSERVER ONLINE was told that residents saw fire coming from one of the back rooms of the building and alerted the police and fire department. A unit from Savanna-la-Mar responded and put out the blaze. The house is said to be insured.

No one was reported injured in the incidents.

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Fire destroys upper St Andrew apartments, damage Westmoreland dwelling

Fire destroys downtown wholesale

Monday, September 29, 2014 | 11:45 AM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Fire of unknown origin destroyed a wholesale in the commercial district of downtown Kingston Monday morning.

Police said they received a call at 7:00 am after fire was seen coming from the building located on Princess Street.

“Based on early assessment, millions of dollars worth of goods were destroyed,” a police officer on the scene told the OBSERVER ONLINE.

Firemen are still conducting cooling down exercise.

Kimmo Matthews

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Massive fire destroys hundreds of acres of land in St. Elizabeth

A massive fire in the drought stricken community of  Malvern in St. Elizabeth, has razed hundreds of  acres of  farmlands and damaged property as well as farm supplies.

Livestock was also destroyed in the blaze, which started early Saturday.      

At news time, personnel from the Santa Cruz, Junction and Black River Fire Stations, were trying to contain the blaze that is now threatening sections of  the Bigwoods and Mountainside Plains. 

Assistant Superintendent of  the Black River Fire Station, Harry Clarke, says his teamencountered difficulties en route to the scene.

“We responded with one unit from the Santa Cruz fire station … we are battling a huge blaze , so far about 600 acres of farm and pasture land have been destroyed by this fire.   

Based on a report from a very large cattle farmer in the area, someone lit a fire in  a section of his pasture and due to severe drought conditions and high winds, the fire spread quickly to adjoining areas,” Clarke said.

Meanwhile, Manager at Fareview Farm in Malvern, Anthony Hamilton, said in less than 30 minutes the fire quickly spread and employees could only stand and watch helplessly.

“On our farm here we lost about 500 acres , we didn’t lose any of t he animals, but when you speak of the posts and wires, you are talking about several thousands (of dollars).

A team from the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) team was dispatched to the company’s wind farm in Munroe, due to the threatening flames.

Firefighters were successful in preventing the fire from reaching  Munro College and nearby houses.

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Massive fire destroys hundreds of acres of land in St. Elizabeth