Casan­draTh­omp­son-Forbes

Two To­ba­go busi­ness own­ers have suf­fered loss­es fol­low­ing a fire in Scar­bor­ough yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the fire start­ed around 12.30pm on Cas­tries Street, Scar­bor­ough.

One of the busi­ness own­ers David Kerr, of Scor­pi­on Elec­tron­ics & Records, told Guardian Me­dia that the fire start­ed in a down­stairs room of the build­ing. He said they start­ed see­ing and smelling smoke, but was un­able to do any­thing to save the build­ing and he could on­ly sal­vage a few of his prod­ucts.

“I got like five peo­ple to help me sal­vage some of my goods, so the fire al­ready come up­stairs and the heat of the fire and the smoke we were suf­fo­cat­ing through the smoke. I will con­sid­er my loss­es to be at least $12,000 to $15,000 be­cause it’s goods, my lap­top and oth­er ac­ces­sories” he said.

A near­by busi­ness, owned by Edi­son Her­cules, sus­tained heat and wa­ter dam­age.

Kerr said the re­lo­ca­tion of fire Ten­ders from the Scar­bor­ough Fire Sta­tion to the Crown Point Fire Sta­tion fol­low­ing a fire in April this year al­so posed a chal­lenge.

“We called the fire of­fi­cers, every­one was on their phone call­ing the fire sta­tion, the po­lice and all got on the ra­dio and called for them, but they said they were not up­town any more, so they had to come from quite Crown Point, so they took very long to come,” he said

Two oth­er per­sons had to be trans­port­ed to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal to be treat­ed for smoke in­hala­tion.

The cause of the fire is yet to be as­cer­tained while com­plete loss­es are still to be quan­ti­fied.