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  • 8 months ago
A fire broke out at Building 10, Beverly Hills Laventille on Tuesday morning, after an electrical cable leading to the meter base of the building caught fire. Residents mobilised and were able to use sand to extinguish the blaze before it spread to the apartments, however some electrical infrastructure was said to be damaged, resulting in T&TEC removing twelve meters.
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00:00In other news, a fire broke out at Building 10, Beverly Hills, Laventil this morning
00:05after an electrical cable leading to the meter base of the building caught fire.
00:10Residents mobilized and were able to use sand to extinguish the blaze
00:14before it spread to the other apartments.
00:16However, some electrical infrastructure was said to be damaged,
00:19resulting in TNTech removing 12 meters.
00:22An affected resident contacted the TV6 newsroom around 2 o'clock this afternoon.
00:27At 9.30 a.m., the resident of Beverly Hills, Laventil, noticed smoke coming out from the meter base on Building 10.
00:34With a blink of an eye, a fire started.
00:37Residents quickly chose on and the main electricity is deprived of it under control.
00:41TNTech was contacted. All 12 meters was removed immediately.
00:45The manager and supervisor from AGC was contacted, and no one asked him to resolve the problem.
00:51We have elderly people living in the building, and we have kids to go to school.
00:54We have babies, you understand, and up to now nobody has come to Beverly Hills to walk to the final.
01:00Like, when we go and get back on, where's the next step, nothing like that.
01:03So that's with the CRS waiting, basically, on somebody to come to talk to you to find out what is going on.
01:08However, sometime after 5 this evening, HTC confirmed that technical and maintenance teams
01:14were dispatched to assess the damage later on in the day, and replacement works are currently underway.
01:19The HTC cell's full replacement of the cable is expected to be completed by Thursday, June 5,
01:26and restoration of electricity to Building 10 is expected shortly thereafter.
01:31The corporation is giving an assurance that updates will be provided to the residents
01:35should the date of completion change.
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