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Fire officials say overheated Christmas lights may have been the cause of a fire on Independence Street late Saturday.<\/p>\nFire officials say overheated Christmas lights may have been the cause of a fire on Independence Street late Saturday.<\/p>\n
Two buildings were damaged by the fire and the officials are warning residents that they should practice safety measures at all times, especially during the festive season.<\/p>\n
“Beware during the Christmas season … we know that during that time a lot of people use electricity and conduct other practices. Please remember safety comes first in all our activities and we should pay a lot of attention to the use electricity during that time and practice safety at all times,” fire services PRO Wayne Letang cautioned.<\/p>\n
He said the fire occurred at about 10:30 pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“We received a call for Fire, at Independence Street. There were two buildings involved … one was a wooden building owned by Dorothy David and son Curtis Cuffy who were out at the time,” he said.<\/p>\n
A second building nearby suffurered minor damage to the outside walls, Letang said.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the fire continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire officials say overheated Christmas lights may have been the cause of a fire on Independence Street late Saturday. Two buildings were damaged by the fire and the officials are warning residents that they should practice safety measures at all…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidents-tragedy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n