A 34-year-old man died af­ter a fire de­stroyed his home at Jor­dan Ter­race, D’Abadie, on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said around 11.30 am, a neigh­bour no­ticed smoke com­ing from the house and called for help. Fire of­fi­cers from the Ari­ma Fire Sta­tion re­spond­ed and ex­tin­guished the blaze.

When they searched the build­ing, they found the body of Qua­si Squires in­side a bed­room. The two-bed­room con­crete struc­ture had no elec­tric­i­ty or run­ning wa­ter. The cause of the fire has not yet been de­ter­mined.

Mean­while, po­lice and fire of­fi­cers are al­so in­ves­ti­gat­ing sev­er­al oth­er fires that oc­curred over the week­end.

In To­ba­go, a fam­i­ly of four es­caped with­out in­jury af­ter a fire dam­aged their home in Low­lands on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said around 4.50 pm, the home­own­er re­turned to find flames com­ing from a room on the north­ern side of the up­stairs por­tion of the two-storey house. She alert­ed her hus­band and two chil­dren, who were in­side at the time, and they all ran to safe­ty.

Fire of­fi­cers from the Scar­bor­ough Fire Sta­tion re­spond­ed and ex­tin­guished the blaze. About half of the build­ing was dam­aged.

The cause of the fire has not yet been de­ter­mined.

Ear­li­er on Sat­ur­day, a house in Coro­man­del Vil­lage, Ce­dros, was de­stroyed by fire.

Around 6 am, the oc­cu­pant was awak­ened by the heat and saw that his bed and mat­tress were on fire. He tried to ex­tin­guish the flames with wa­ter, but the house was soon en­gulfed. The man quick­ly fled the burn­ing house.

The wood­en and con­crete struc­ture mea­sured about 30 by 40 feet and was fit­ted with elec­tric­i­ty and wa­ter. It was not in­sured. All fur­ni­ture and house­hold items were lost.

Fire of­fi­cers re­spond­ed and ex­tin­guished the blaze. No one was in­jured.

A marked po­lice ve­hi­cle al­so crashed in Princes Town on Fri­day while of­fi­cers were re­spond­ing to a fire at the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty Build­ing in Pi­paro.

Po­lice said around 4.45 pm last Fri­day, W/Sgt Bas­sarath, PC Gilbert, and WPC Jack­son were trav­el­ling in a Toy­ota Hilux, when PC Gilbert lost con­scious­ness while dri­ving on a bend af­ter the bridge on Low­er Pi­paro Road. The ve­hi­cle col­lid­ed with a con­crete re­tain­ing wall, dam­ag­ing the left front.

PC Gilbert was tak­en to the Princes Town Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty by a near­by of­fi­cer. Emer­gency Health Ser­vices treat­ed Sgt Bas­sarath and WPC Jack­son, who were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Sgt Bas­sarath and PC Gilbert re­mained hos­pi­talised in sta­ble con­di­tion, while WPC Jack­son was dis­charged af­ter treat­ment.