Tonight about one dozen families are homeless, and as many as three dozen people have been dislocated after a fire that burnt the central apartment in one of the city's oldest low income neighborhoods, which is Pink's or Majestic Alley. The fire burnt out 8 units, four upstairs and four downstairs in the main apartment building and it also brunt three houses behind that. At this hour, temporary shelter is being arranged by CEMO and the Area Representative at St. Mary's Hall. Said Musa and The Grandmaster have been in the neighborhood living or working for four decades going on five, and they told us what's next, both for the investigation and for starting over...
Rt. Hon. Said Musa, Area Rep. - Fort George
"And of course we have to ensure that we have good electrical system in all these houses and I have been trying to do my best to ensure that that has happened. So I don't think it's an electrical fire."
Leroy "Grandmaster" Young
"I will tell you again, we don't want it turn political or nothing like that, but sometimes politics got to do with it, because if they were updating the fire station system - house were leaking, this could have been avoided or at least it could have been minimized. It hurts me. I am looking after the elderly first - give them to option to have the shelter and thing. I am not a young rooster again, but I've been through worst that this and I could survive at least for tonight, but somebody has to come through."
So tonight, a number of persons have taken up temporary shelter in St Mary's hall and CEMO is seeking to facilitate them with basic food and shelter needs.
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