A garbage heap fire yesterday quickly spread in Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, destroying two houses and leaving four persons searching for a new abode.
Deon Wilson, of Angoy’s Avenue, stated yesterday that the owner of one of the destroyed houses lit his garbage heap and headed out. Wilson, a neighbour, said, that after the fire started to spread on the grass he extinguished it and proceeded to take a nap until he was awoken hours after by a commotion that the houses were on fire.
Immediately rushing into action, Wilson said. “I start take water from the trench with bucket and try to out it but the heat was so much I had to run down back…”