Fire Official Says Faulty Wiring Destroyed Hattieville Home

Meanwhile, Bucknor provided details about a fire that left a family in Hattieville homeless last Friday morning. He explained that their investigation revealed the blaze was caused by faulty electrical wiring in the house on Old Hattieville Road.

 

Gladstone Bucknor, Belize District Station Supervisor, National Fire Service
“It’s a wooden structure, with about a four-foot elevation off the ground, completely destroyed. We have one female and her two kids staying in the house. That one, the fire originated in the kids’ room and again, electrical faultiness has a lot of role in that one. We found beatings where the fan was plugged in. And we actually discovered that there’s only a 20-amp breaker that was filling a whole entire building. So it was overloaded.”