Ke­jan Haynes

The Mara­cas St. Joseph home of UWI lec­tur­er In­dera Sage­wan, near­ly caught fire when a high-ten­sion wire fell on her roof last night.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, In­di­ra, a UWI lec­tur­er, was at home with her 83-year-old moth­er, and her 24-year-old daugh­ter, when the house lights be­gan flick­er­ing. They al­so heard loud nois­es from the roof. Up­on check­ing, Sage­wan no­ticed sparks, flash­es, and smoke com­ing from the roof. Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­vealed a live wire from the elec­tric­i­ty pole had come in­to con­tact with the roof.

Fire of­fi­cers and T&TEC per­son­nel and con­trac­tors from Transline, re­spond­ed quick­ly. They man­aged to dis­con­nect the pow­er sup­ply to the house, pre­vent­ing a fire. On in­spect­ing the roof, fire of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered that the wire had burned through ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4 feet of gal­va­nize, leav­ing de­bris. Af­ter pry­ing open the roof to en­sure there was no fire in­side, they sprayed the ceil­ing and roof with wa­ter to ful­ly se­cure the area.

The dam­age was es­ti­mat­ed be­tween $8,000 and $10,000, but for­tu­nate­ly, no one was in­jured. 

Speak­ing brief­ing with Guardian Me­dia Sage­wan con­firmed the in­ci­dent.

"I'm okay. Every­body's okay. Got some dam­age in my daugh­ter's room, but on­ly one room thank God," she said. 

She said there's cur­rent­ly no elec­tric­i­ty to her house but it's be­ing sort­ed. 

This in­ci­dent comes just days af­ter Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and MP Lisa Mor­ris- Ju­lian, and two chil­dren died in a house fire at Far­fan Street in Ari­ma.

Sage­wan said she would be able to say more about the in­ci­dent when things calmed down.