Seven people are homeless after a mid-afternoon fire yesterday destroyed their house at Block 22 Wismar, Linden.
At the time of the fire, no one from the Thom-Pantlitz family of seven was at home and nothing was saved. The inferno was first spotted by a neighbour Claudette Henry. “I start seeing smoke taking over the house and at first I thought somebody was burning rubbish,” she said, but on peering outside, she realized that her neighbours’ house was on fire.
Pauline Thom and three of daughters were at church while her husband of two years was out. She said that when she got the news she took a