Club Cove goes up in smoke

Nothing is more powerful than a mother’s instinct! Just ask Shania Farrell who snatched her one-year-old son Prince and jumped over her banister when she saw thick smoke coming from a nearby building.{{more}}

Last Tuesday night at around 7:40 p.m., an unoccupied building at Lower Edinboro, which in its heyday was known as Club Cove, was gutted by fire, and at press time, fire officials were still investigating the cause of the fire.

Shania, who lives opposite the building with her boyfriend Junior Hinds and their son, told SEARCHLIGHT that she was about to bathe her baby when she saw the smoke coming from the building.



“I just grab Prince, wrap him in a towel, and got out of the house. I never jump over that wall so quick,” Shania, who once lived in the burnt building, said.

Meanwhile Junior was fast asleep in the bedroom and was awakened by the choking smoke coming from the building.

The building is owned by Raphael, and the now deceased Nathan Scott, brothers of former government minister Jerry Scott.

Jerry Scott told SEARCHLIGHT that his family had made plans to refurbish the building.

“We were going to do some work, add another storey and open a guest house,” Scott said, when he visited the scene of the blaze.

SEARCHLIGHT understands that the building, once an entertainment hotspot, was at the time of the fire being used by undesirables, including crack cocaine addicts. (KJ)