Carnival in St. Joseph suffered a major setback early this morning when a fire destroyed a house where costumes for the event were being built and stored.
PRO for the fire department, Wayne Letang, said the fire began around 1:45 on Friday morning.
He said an adjoining house was also destroyed in the blaze and three other houses in close proximity were affected.
Kelvar Darroux, Parliamentary Representative for the area, told DNO between 15 to 20 costumes for a young people’s sensay group were consumed by the fire. He said the costumes were constructed just in time for the opening of Carnival in the community scheduled for Saturday, January 26.
Darroux pointed out that costumes for other groups were not stored in the house and they remain unaffected. He said although nothing can be done to replace the destroyed costumes for the opening parade of carnival on Saturday, the event will go on.
According to Letang the St. Joseph fire station first responded to the blaze and further assistance came from Brigade Headquarters in Roseau.
An elderly woman had to be evacuated from one of the houses that was destroyed in the fire but no one was injured.
The cause of the fire remains unknown but Letang said investigations continue.
ah man people really work on those houses
people of st joe, stop n think,remember what happen to your village with the rain some time ago,take time to think please take time to think something mabe bigger is coming so think if u all continue to harden your heart,turn to the lord n think.
Veer ou lar ,,
jesus is coming soon stop the sensay
MOST IMPORTMANTLY NO ONE WAS HURT…
WHY do some of us have such negative attitude. Wait to hear the outcome of this incident. it is sad to here after working so had on costumes for this festival something like that happened.
let the Lord be praised too much reveling 1forGod.
All u against the sensay so your religious group set fire to the building
berly stop that finger pointing you have to work 24:00–08:00hrs tonightyou alone on the guard desk.
i hope you giving for god too! fool!
Boys start building again, you all have time for the 2 days
i hope that wont setback the carnival
awwwwwwwww….i hope things can go back as planned….;(
this one sounds fishy to me.I hope that this was not a case of sabotage since this seems to be the order of the day lately.
Hope that they can recover from this most unfortunate incident.
sabotage is the order of the day? where you get that?
You people just run your mouths, saying whatever the heck pops into your heads.
@Yea i was thinking the same thing….
Thenn they complain and say the PM is a Dictator!!!
Well-said, yea!
No no no I do not beleive that.
Yes we boy sensay village senjoe. Hmmmm well allu will have to run totonee no sensay tootoonee mas lol
Sorry to hear what happened I hope is no arson.
St. Joseph it’s sad after working hard on the costumes thing happens don’t let this kill your carnival spirit.