Minister of Native Authorities and Group Improvement, Desmond McKenzie, has expressed profound grief on the tragic deaths of three youngsters in a home fireplace in Walkerswood, St Ann early on Sunday morning.
“That is one other painful second that attracts sharp consideration to the essential significance of fireside prevention and fireplace security,” mentioned McKenzie in a launch on Sunday.
“My coronary heart goes out to the remaining household and buddies, and I’m particularly fascinated with the youngsters’s grandmother and the lone grandchild (from the family), simply 5 years outdated, who survived the fireplace.
Sunday morning’s tragic home fireplace scene in Walkerswood, St Ann, the place three younger youngsters perished.
“We’ve got now misplaced 4 youngsters to accommodate fires in these first 12 days of 2025. That’s the similar variety of youngsters who died as a result of fires over the complete yr of 2024,” said McKenzie.
“The Jamaica Fireplace Brigade is ramping up its public training actions by the Fireplace and Life Security Programme. I need to, nonetheless, make a nationwide name for us to take far larger care of ourselves and one another. Most fires are preventable, and we’ve the ability, by the actions we take each single day, to make sure that we stop additional lack of lives and property by fires.
He added that, “Final yr, 27 individuals died (nationally), 79 individuals had been injured, and 1,600 individuals misplaced their houses due to fires. I’m urging each Jamaican to make use of at the moment’s horrible tragedy to resolve, as soon as and for all, that collectively, we are going to stop incidents like these from occurring once more.”
