CASAN­DRA THOMP­SON�FORBES

Six peo­ple in­clud­ing a five-month-old ba­by are now home­less fol­low­ing a fire at Calder Hall Trace, Con­cor­dia, To­ba­go. The fire oc­curred around 1:30 pm on Thurs­day. One of the oc­cu­pants of the home, Ann James, told the T&T Guardian she was out­side the house when she heard a crack­ling noise in the liv­ing room area.

James said she and her hus­band went to in­ves­ti­gate the noise but the area was al­ready en­gulfed in flames and all fam­i­ly be­long­ings were de­stroyed. Fire Of­fi­cials re­vealed that pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions sug­gest that an elec­tri­cal surge may have been the cause.

Loss­es have been es­ti­mat­ed at $150,000. It was the sec­ond fire in To­ba­go for the week fol­low­ing Wednes­day's blaze at Char­lot­teville where four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a pen­sion­er, were ren­dered home­less.