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Fire guts residential building in Red Bay
Just after 8:00 PM tonight, June 11, 2023, a fire gutted a home in Red Bay on the eastern end of Tortola. Photo: Team of Reporters
It is unclear to this news centre, what started the fire or where it originated; however, the building destroyed the building, which was mostly wooden, according to reports. Photo: Team of Reporters
RED BAY, Tortola, VI- Just after 8:00 PM tonight, June 11, 2023, a fire gutted a home in Red Bay on the eastern end of Tortola.
It is unclear to this news centre, what started the fire or where it originated; however, the fire destroyed the building, which was mostly wooden, according to reports.
The blaze also scorched a nearby property.
Up to the time of publication, there were no reports of injuries.
More details will be provided as they come in.
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12 Responses to “Fire guts residential building in Red Bay”
That individual who has been continually burning around their property in lower Great Mountain / Huntums Ghut all hours of the day before 7am at times stinking up people’s homes and being a hazard to others almost daily for years even during Covid STOP IT because IT WILL BE REPORTED to the Fire and Rescue Dept.
But the way some people react is as if lighting a fire to burn brush is a capital offence, its hypocritical; those in power to see about the Territory's affairs have allowed the Pockwood Pond fiasco to continue for generations, but a person cannot light a controlled fire to get rid of garden debris. Years ago, when the BVI was the BVI with BVIslander farmers preparing their ground for planting crops, "slash and burn" was normal. Today, if you try to get rid of a little dry bush or grass without overburdening the spilling over dumpsters, you are coming up against tons of opposition. Who aint complaining that it waking up their asthma, calling police on you out of badmind and spite. Once a fire is being attended to, like someone is there to see that it does not get out of control, there should be no problem in burning a little trash. Freedom is slowly draining away from us, just because we cannot do things properly and because people like to complain for every little thing, with their evil mind to get you in trouble. The Firemen prefer to sit from day to day playing dominoes, but if called to a fire, its a big problem for them. Not saying that we need more fires to give them work to do, but you get the point, hopefully. That said, we are in a dry, hot season, so please be very careful, take care of yourself, drink enough water and stay hydrated before you catch afire too.