Fire Chief Marlon Gentle yesterday confirmed that the fire which gutted four Regent Street stores and destroyed the top flat of the Lucky Dollar Furniture and Electronics store on Tuesday was electrical in origin and started in the living quarters of Chinese nationals.
Gentle said that the fire started at the back of the building, which was occupied as living quarters by the Chinese who had leased a section of a duplex owned by Claire and Anthony Pires. The fire chief said that makeshift wiring caused the circuit to fail which sparked the fire.
Gentle said that there were three Chinese nationals living in the building, not four
