Quick thinking by Cummings Lodge residents saved a two-storey building from being seriously damaged by fire yesterday morning.
The building, a concrete and wooden structure, is shared by two families. At about 10am, a child rushed out of the lower flat apartment screaming to his father that the place was on fire. This newspaper understands that the fire originated from an electrical problem. “The man that lives there,” a next door neighbour explained, “was over at my place working. All we hear is his son come running out saying that the place is on fire and when we run to look we see smoke coming from the windows.”
A rear room in the Lot 696 Seventh Field, Cummings Lodge lower flat apartment was damaged and there were smoke stains on the walls. However, a bucket-brigade formed by residents quickly put the blaze out. “This thing could’ve gotten out of control but thankfully it did not,” the resident said.
The tenant Wadewattie Raman said that she was relived that what could’ve been a terrible disaster was avoided.
