Delcina Grandersonâs hillside home at Cacartha in Fitzhughes was left unscathed by the Christmas flooding; her good fortune however, was shattered five days later, when her home of 44 years went up in flames.{{more}}
Granderson told SEARCHLIGHT that on the fateful day, she returned from her sisterâs home around 4:30 pm, after they cancelled plans to clean their church building.
She said after giving a relative some food, she returned to her sisterâs home, then, around 8:30 pm, someone called and told her that her house was on fire. Granderson said that when she got to the scene a short distance away, the house was already engulfed.
âI donât know how that happened. I donât leave light in my house and I donât have currentâ, a distraught Delcina, who along with her grown son Curtis, lived in the house.
With no running water available in the village, following damage to the water system from last weekâs floods, neighbours watched helplessly, as the dwelling went up in flames.
Everything was lost; another family joins the many that lost all during the recent bad weather system.(TY)
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