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Investigations are ongoing into the cause of a house fire that occurred in the village of Mahaut on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Letang, the building in question was located near the Mahaut Credit Union along the E.O. Leblanc Highway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can confirm that staff at the Roseau Fire Station responded to a house fire in the village of Mahaut this afternoon at approximately 2:30 PM,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He noted that the building was constructed of two floors, a ground floor, and a first floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first floor was constructed out of lumber and the ground floor constructed out of concrete block,\u201d Letang explained.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, he stated that the building was owned by Mr. Charles Esprit who is presently out of state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe building in question was in a state of abandonment post-Hurricane-Maria, but was frequented by homeless persons on occasions,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n
Letang explained that the entire top floor of the building was destroyed by the blaze before it was controlled and extinguished by staff of the Fire and Ambulance Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigations are ongoing into the cause of a house fire that occurred in the village of Mahaut on Tuesday. According to Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Letang, the building in question was located near the Mahaut Credit Union along the E.O….","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":297803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n