Two fire officers are being treated for injuries after the mechanical lift they were in collapsed while fighting a fire in East Port-of-Spain on Thursday morning.
Police said officers from the Wrightson Road and Belmont Fire Stations received a report of a fire on Observatory Street, East Port-of-Spain, around 12.25 am and went to the scene. The officers said the fire began in an abandoned wooden shed but quickly spread to another abandoned structure and eventually to a two-storey building nearby.
No one in the building was injured, but two fire officers who were on the mechanical ladder of a fire tender were injured when the lift fell from mechanical failure. One officer sustained injuries to his chest while the other officer's leg was injured. Engineers were able to remove the fire tender just after 6 am.