The Tribune

By RIEL MAJOR

A fire in Grand Bahama yesterday left an old sub-police station “completely gutted”.

Chief fire officer for Grand Bahama, Superintendent Ernest Hanna, said officials responded to a fire at the International Bazaar at 5.26am. “It was a small building in the International Bazaar that was previously occupied by the police as a sub-station in that area. No longer occupied by the police,” he said.

“We believe the fire may have been started by vagrants who use (the building) as a shelter and perhaps they were using fire to warm themselves up from the cold and we believe from the result of that, the fire got out of hand and caught the building.”

Supt Hanna said no one was injured and police don’t suspect the cause of the fire to be of malicious intent.

“The entire building was gutted from the inside... (the fire was) just a careless use of fire in the area and no other buildings in the area were affected as a result of the fire.

“The building was in a run-down state, so the police had no equipment or nothing of value inside the building itself.”