Ve­ra Melville is thank­ful to fire of­fi­cers for sav­ing her home and the life of her in­ca­pac­i­tat­ed daugh­ter.

A blaze broke out at Melville’s home around 9 am yes­ter­day at Mil­ford Road, Bon Ac­cord, next to the Bon Ac­cord Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School.

Melville told Guardian Me­dia the fire be­gan in an apart­ment where her son De­jorn Melville, his wife, Dana Patrick, and the cou­ple’s two chil­dren live.

They were not home at the time of the fire.

Melville said the Fire Ser­vice ar­rived on the scene quick­ly and a T&TEC crew pass­ing in a truck al­so stopped to ren­der as­sis­tance.

Melville said she has an 18-year-old daugh­ter who suf­fers from Tri­somy 18, al­so known as Ed­wards syn­drome, a ge­net­ic dis­or­der that se­vere­ly in­ca­pac­i­tates the per­son af­fect­ed by it.

The teen had to be rushed out of the burn­ing house.

Melville said the cause of the fire was yet to be de­ter­mined. —Shas­tri Boodan