A house was destroyed by fire this afternoon in Belize City. Shedrick
Banner and his wife are homeless after the early afternoon gutted the house
they called home in the Port Loyola area. 7News was on the scene.
Keith Swift Reporting,
The fire started around 1:30 this afternoon at this house hidden deep an alley
off of Faber’s Road.
Jacqueline Budna, Witness
“I saw a little smoke and I told my brother to come and check and
I saw my auntie’s whole house the ketch fire. Only that I see but the
fireman they took long fi come. I told my auntie husband, I called him when
he was coming and I told him, the fire is through the alley.”
He is 58 year old Cedric Banner. He told me he had left his house a short while
before the fire to go and buy a chicken to cook. When he returned with his chicken
– the home he’s lived in for 20 years was on fire.
Cedric Banner, Fire Victim
“I gone out to buy. I left here about after one and I went to buy
chicken and food to cook what is on my bike there. But then I was out there 
talking with some friend and when I came back I didn’t even hear the engine.
But when I came back I see some crowd and then they said my house is burning
down, only that.”
Keith Swift,
“Did you leave anything on in the house?”
Cedric Banner,
“Nothing, nothing. I locked up my house, everything locked up. I locked
all my door and everything because I am here so I locked everything up.”
Keith Swift,
“Can you think what might have caused it?”
Cedric Banner,
“I don’t know. I can’t tell what happened because everything
was cut off so I don’t know. I left it locked. This house has been here
about 20 years and nothing happened. For 20 years this house wired. I haven’t
started to cook yet, see my chicken there.”
Keith Swift,
“What’s going to be your next step?”
Cedric Banner,
“Well I have to try build back somehow. I don’t know how I will
make it for the Christmas because I don’t have no clothes. I don’t
nothing, nothing. Everything gone.”
The house was insured for $40,000.
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