Mudd fire brought under control

Smoke rising after a fire in Abaco on Sunday.

As of Tuesday, October 15, 2019

By RIEL MAJOR

Tribune Staff Reporter

rmajor@tribunemedia.net

POLICE said they were able to get a fire in an Abaco shanty town under control on Sunday.

Police Commissioner Anthony Ferguson believes that persons are going in The Mudd area looking for things and starting fires.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the National Honours ceremony at Government House yesterday, Commissioner Ferguson said: “I took a team into Abaco on Friday morning along with the commodore, the Defence Force and joined the team in Abaco. It was to really assess the security situation in Abaco and once we got there, we put a plan in place really that we believe will make sure that things will run continuously smooth in Abaco.

“We have teams of fire branch officers down there in Abaco along with volunteer firefighters and so there are no major issues in respect to fires. Yesterday I think it was the fire was on the other side and the wind blew it on the side on The Mudd.”

He added: “They were able to extinguish the fire. We will continue to be on the ground and monitor it and hopefully pretty soon that should go away.”

The commissioner said officers have enough resources on the ground to deal with fires on the island.

He said: “If a fire is being spread, you really have to try to out it and if it isn’t out then you will find that it will continue burning its way out. In most cases the fire was brought under control. We are pretty confident that we have the resources to be able to deal with that.”

When contacted for comment, Health Minister Duane Sands said there obviously is a possibility that bodies of Hurricane Dorian victims may have been burnt during the fire but added this is speculation.

Dr Sands said: “But you’re talking now about we believe that there could be bodies there and now that there is a fire the question of if there were bodies there ‘could that been burnt?’ Again, that now adds another level of uncertainty so I wouldn’t focus too much attention on it.

“At this point even if…that’s a very speculative issue. The more important question is why did the fire start and are there likely to be other fires? So, the fire now impacts everything, and everything turns on it so I wouldn’t focus my concern on just the issue of the possibility that there are bodies there.”

The health minister said if remains were burnt and found, there is still the possibility of using bones to get DNA for identification.

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SP 5 years ago

Police Commissioner Anthony Ferguson and Security Minister Marvin Dames can shove their heads deep in the sand and play dumb as much as they like. We all know starting fires are typically what Haitians do whenever they don't get what they want.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation…

Secondly, is it only just a coincidence that murders in the capital immediately spiked after hundreds of undocumented illegal Haitian migrants arrived from Abaco? Usually, police have leads and suspects in custody within hours or a few days of murders. Suddenly this is no longer the case. The police now have no idea who to look for in relation to many of these cold-blooded murders.

The government didn't have enough damn common sense to photograph, fingerprint and document illegals as best they could before setting them loose in Nassau? Did they fear being called inhumane, xenophobic and cruel by Fred Smith and his crew of Haitian loyalists?

Will Fred Smith, Louby Georges, Haitian pastors, and Rights Bahamas group of Haitians step forward and turn in these murderers, Haitian drug dealers, human smugglers, arms dealers, and fraudulent document hawkers?

We know Fred Smith, Louby Georges, and the Haitian pastors know all about these criminals, but there is not a single instance where any of them ever assisted the Bahamas in eradicating these or any Haitian criminal enterprises!

Until these Haitian advocates begin showing loyalty to the Bahamas, they should be totally ignored and censored.

As the U.S issues new damming travel warnings because of the sudden sharp increase of murders, the government better quickly get a handle on the undocumented illegals "THEY BROUGHT HERE" under the guise of humanitarian reasons. Common sense should have dictated these people be placed under protective custody and not simply let loose to potentially cause havoc on an unsuspecting society.