An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

Three days af­ter D’Abadie/O’Meara MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and two of her chil­dren per­ished in a fire which gut­ted their home at Far­fan Street, Ari­ma, foul play has been ruled out.

A se­nior fire of­fi­cial con­firmed that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the trag­ic in­ci­dent was con­clud­ed yes­ter­day but ex­plained that it would take a few days for the writ­ten re­port to be com­piled. That re­port is ex­pect­ed to be hand­ed over to act­ing chief fire of­fi­cer Andy Hutchin­son by late next week.

Un­will­ing to di­vulge the find­ings of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the se­nior of­fi­cial would on­ly con­firm, “I can say no foul play was iden­ti­fied at this time.”

Mor­ris-Ju­lian, 48, her son Je­si­ah, six, and daugh­ter Xi­anne, 25, died as re­sult of smoke in­hala­tion, an au­top­sy con­firmed. Their bod­ies were found in the gut­ted house, with Mor­ris-Ju­lian re­port­ed­ly cradling Je­si­ah to her.

The in­ci­dent left an out­raged pub­lic de­mand­ing an­swers re­gard­ing the fire, in­clud­ing why of­fi­cers from the Ari­ma Fire Sta­tion were tardy in re­spond­ing al­though it is less than a block away from the house. The TTFS has said fire­fight­ers were re­spond­ing to an­oth­er fire at Manuel Con­go.

The T&T Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) and Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is al­so in a war of words over whether there was a wa­ter prob­lem.

Mean­while, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds said yes­ter­day that Gov­ern­ment will an­nounce the de­tails of a com­mit­tee be­ing set up to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the trag­ic deaths when it is fi­nalised.