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Was Fire At NYCC Arson?
posted (February 8, 2013)
Right now, officials at the National Youth Cadet Corps are trying to determine the value of the damages caused by a fire which completely destroyed a building on their compound at around 7 p.m. last night.

Although the youths who go to this facility are often troubled, the manager told 7News this evening that they had nothing to do with this fire. Here's how he described the blaze:

William Swan, Manager - National Youth Cadet Services Corps
"I was in the southern part of Belize, in PG coming back to Cadet Corps yesterday evening when I got a call from one of my night staff that one of the store rooms is on fire. I immediately told him to call the fire department and the police and he told me that had already done that which was good. On my return to the compound I found the building completely destroyed and I started a small investigation which you know I will leave it to the police to determine what is the cause. I will not point any fingers, but I have some of the cadets who saw two guys running from behind the building onto the village. We have about three cadets who said that they recognize who the guy is. I will not call names nor will I get involve at this moment, let the police take the course of doing their investigation."

"I would say maybe it's a mischievous act which like I said I will not go deep into it. It will take its course and I will not point fingers at this moment. The building is small wooden structure about 18'x 20' that we used temporary to store some of our toiletries and detergent and soap powder that t6he cadets used on a daily basis. We also used it to store two our gas tank that we use for backup in case the main tank ran out of gas for the kitchen. We had some pots and some kitchen wares and 5 gallons water bottles that we also stored there for the cadets to use on a daily basis and all our store records - keeping a cabinet in that storage area."

Fortunately, as the manager explained, this building was used for storage, and nobody was near it at the time.

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