The Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) has giv­en an up­date on a fire at Tow­er C of the Wa­ter­front Com­plex, stat­ing that at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2:45 pm to­day, dur­ing on­go­ing main­te­nance works at the In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Cen­tre, Tow­er C, a fire broke out in the heat­ing el­e­ment of the roof­ing mem­brane that is cur­rent­ly be­ing re­placed.

Ude­cott said the fire was quick­ly ex­tin­guished with­in min­utes, and all safe­ty pro­to­cols were prompt­ly fol­lowed.

“There was no im­me­di­ate threat to life or safe­ty. In line with our Health, Safe­ty, Se­cu­ri­ty, and En­vi­ron­ment (HSSE) pro­to­cols, the build­ing was evac­u­at­ed as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure due to smoke en­ter­ing the fresh air in­take sys­tem,” Ude­cott added.

“We want to re­as­sure all stake­hold­ers that the sit­u­a­tion is un­der con­trol, and the build­ing con­tin­ues to be mon­i­tored close­ly. Our pri­or­i­ty re­mains the safe­ty and well-be­ing of all per­son­nel and vis­i­tors. We will con­tin­ue to pro­vide up­dates as need­ed and are work­ing dili­gent­ly to make sure the sit­u­a­tion is ful­ly re­solved,” Ude­cott said.