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Friday, February 28, 2025

Fire at Queen’s Park Oval leaves two booths damaged

by

Angelo Jedidiah
38 days ago
20250121

Re­porter

an­ge­lo.je­didi­ah@guardian.co.tt

Queen’s Park Crick­et Club pres­i­dent, Dr Nigel Ca­ma­cho, has praised the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) for their swift re­sponse to a fire at the Queen’s Park Oval.

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, videos cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia show­ing smoke ris­ing from the Shell Cor­po­rate Booth at the his­toric crick­et grounds in Port-of-Spain.

When Guardian Me­dia ar­rived at the scene, Ca­ma­cho ex­plained that ini­tial as­sess­ments sug­gest­ed that the fire had spread through the air-con­di­tion­ing ducts, con­nect­ing the Shell cor­po­rate booth and the NL­CB booth. 

Ca­ma­cho said he be­came aware of the fire through al­ready cir­cu­lat­ing videos that were sent to him by friends.

“I ran across and spoke to the head of se­cu­ri­ty. He in­di­cat­ed that the Fire Ser­vice was al­ready here and that things were al­ready start­ing to be un­der con­trol,” Ca­ma­cho told Guardian Me­dia at the Oval. 

“I per­son­al­ly was very heart­ened to hear about the quick re­sponse and get­ting every­thing un­der con­trol, for min­i­mal dam­age.”

Fire of­fi­cers from Wright­son Road Head­quar­ters and Four Roads re­port­ed­ly ar­rived at the recre­ation­al grounds with­in min­utes of be­ing alert­ed, along­side the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) and a wa­ter truck pro­vid­ed by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Ca­ma­cho con­firmed that while the Shell Booth saw sig­nif­i­cant dam­age, at the NL­CB Booth there was min­i­mal dam­age. No in­juries were re­port­ed.

He dis­missed ru­mours of any post­pone­ments or can­cel­la­tions of CPL games sched­uled for 2025.

The cause of the fire has not yet been de­ter­mined.


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