No roof, no food in fire aftermath

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Ms Olibrice highlighted an unfinished building where she sought refuge to shelter her one-year-old baby and other children after the fire. The structure was among several dilapidated buildings flooded with water from the rain, full of burnt clothes and rubble.

“Somebody gave me a blue tent to put on the roof, so I put it on the roof for the water,” she said. “Because with them children, I have a baby that’s one-year-old so she can’t get wet in the rain. If she wet in the rain, she gon’ get sick. So we trying the best, and people trying they best to help us.”

The shanty town was filled with children playing and roaming in the yard when The Tribune arrived, despite the precarious situation some now face. Asked if she and her children had eaten food recently, Ms Olibrice said: “People give my children.