On Saturday night, a bushfire threatened a neighborhood of mainly wooden structures on Curl Thompson Street.
It was a bush fire that got out of control and eventually engulfed a home, residence to a man and his son.
We spoke with Kenneth Mortis Station Supervisor at the Belize City Fire Department who told us that it was a fight with the bush fire as well as the wind.
Kenneth Mortis, Station Supervisor
"A little after 6 probably 6:10 there about we received a call of a bush fire in the Jane Usher boulevard area of which we responded to. On our arrival we found an open area that had vegetation along with some tires that was burning which crated a level of panic. We got into operations trying to extinguish that particular fire. The wind direction threw a wrench in our operations whereby a wooden structure approximately 12X14 of plywood construction was eventually engulfed in the fire and totally destroyed.01:10."
"It was a reported bush fire which indeed had originated unfortunately the house was destroyed as a result of the bush fire."
"As it is as we're standing here today the fire department has no concrete evidence as to who exactly lives in the premises, how many individuals actually occupy the premises to date nobody has come forward to say well I am the occupant of that establishment."
Tonight the occupants of the house who lost everything in the fire are being provided shelter by the Muslim Temple in Port Loyola.
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