Nation Update: Owner loses all in fire

The clothes on his back are all Edwin Griffith has left after a fire destroyed his home in Water Street, Christ Church, on December 7. Not even his dogs survived. “There was nothing I could do,” he said as he recalled how the blaze consumed his house and shed, and damaged the adjacent sports bar and restaurant owned by his son. The cause of the fire is yet unknown, according to Tremelle Perch, divisional officer of the Barbados Fire Service which responded with three tenders, one each from the Port Fire Station, Worthing Fire Station and Bridgetown Fire Station.