RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to a house fire in Beetham Gar­dens in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day morn­ing, which al­leged­ly be­gan af­ter two broth­ers fought with each oth­er.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 12:30 am on Tues­day, a re­port of a house on fire was re­ceived at Com­mand Cen­tre.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that PC McIn­tosh and PC Fras­er of the Besson Street Po­lice re­spond­ed to the re­port.  They went to Phase 5 Beetham Gar­dens and saw a small wood­en house, rough­ly 12 feet by 15 feet, on fire.

Fire of­fi­cers of the Wright­son Road Fire De­part­ment, led by FSO Lar­rah, al­ready were on the scene and man­aged to quick­ly ex­tin­guish the blaze.  How­ev­er, the house was al­ready com­plete­ly burnt.

No one was in­jured be­cause of the fire.

Po­lice said the house was owned by Michael El­lis of Phase 5 Beetham Gar­dens who told po­lice that just be­fore the fire, he had had an al­ter­ca­tion with his broth­er and as a re­sult, they be­gan fight­ing with each oth­er.  He re­port­ed that short­ly af­ter the fight, he saw that his house was on fire.

El­lis said he does not know who or what caused the fire, but he be­lieves it al­leged­ly could have been set by his broth­er.

Po­lice said the val­ue of the prop­er­ty dam­age is un­known.

Po­lice said El­lis' broth­er suf­fered a su­per­fi­cial wound to the head which he said was al­leged­ly sus­tained dur­ing his fight with El­lis.

The broth­er was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he was treat­ed.

En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing to as­cer­tain whether the fire was as a re­sult of ar­son, or ac­ci­den­tal.