South Amelia’s Ward residents came out in their numbers to form a bucket brigade in an attempt to save a house that was ablaze at some minutes to two yesterday morning, but their mission failed.

And the occupant of the house, Alan Fraser, a re-migrant, who was at home at the time had to make his escape by jumping through a second-storey window, leaving all household items to the blaze.

Neighbours were awakened to screams of “fire” early yesterday morning and according to one of them, her family was aroused by the sound of what seemed to be rustling zinc sheets.

“I decided to look out the window to see if the house was being broken into only to see blazing fire