The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Heston M. Jackson, II
27 November 2008
Fire yesterday gutted a four storage building on camp Johnson Road leaving about twenty persons homeless.
According to an inhabitant of the building, Vatango G. Konneh, the fire started in one of the rooms on the fourth floor. Even though fire service men tried to control the blaze, the fire entered the entire fourth floor which has seven rooms, leaving several persons at least 20, homeless.
Mr. Konneh, a student of the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU) told this paper that the fire started as a result of the lighting of candle in one of the rooms. He said this is the second time in two weeks that the incidence of fire has occurred in the building.
He later noted that when the fire started last week just on the same floor where the blazing of fire took place yesterday, it was put off due to the heavy strength of men. Mr. Konneh also said that the fire yesterday gutted the building because at the time the blaze came from the room where it was seen, those who were on the scene took it for joke.
He also said some saw the fire and asked that it immediately be put off but some of those on the floor erroneously said it was an electric fault.
Student Vatango later hasten to say that this is also the result of the fact that those who lived on that floor are all people who go out to search for their daily bread when the day light emerges.
He also said it is also the result of some careless individual who may have lit the candle that has left several of colleagues homeless.
When asked as to whether he lived on the floor of the incidence, his response was no, but explained further that there was no evacuation of properties from the floor where the destruction of fire has occurred.
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