Family lose all in fire

EVERYTHING they had went up in smoke.

And residents of Cave Hill Drive, St Lucy, tried to assist the Smith family in extinguishing the fire that tore through their timber house, but there was no water to aid in the battle.

Nadette Smith, the mother of three school-aged children, said she and her husband Junior Smith, a route taxi operator, were still in disbelief and trying to come to grips with the loss.

Nadette told the DAILY NATION yesterday that  a fire official told her that the insured house burnt “unnaturally fast”, so the fire had to be investigated  by forensics personnel.

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