JARIKABA — The suspected cause of the fire, in which an abandoned wooden low-rise house and a mini excavator on the Fifth Road in the Saramacca district completely went up in flames on Thursday morning, is the setting fire to mown grass the day before, despite warnings. On Thursday morning there was still smoke development near the wooden house, the fire was later discovered, the Suriname Police Corps wrote on its website.
The Jarikaba police received a report of the house fire around 10:38 am. Once on site, the house was already ablaze and the fire brigade was busy extinguishing the fire. The mini-excavator, which was located in a construction shed behind the house, was completely destroyed. The fire brigade managed to prevent an adjacent stone house from catching fire. There were no personal accidents.
The preliminary investigation showed that the burned house belonged to AP. The Forensic Investigation and the Energy Companies Suriname were called in for the necessary investigation, which has not yet been completed.
