A San Juan fam­i­ly, whose house was de­stroyed by fire yes­ter­day, has joined the grow­ing list of per­sons blam­ing faulty and leak­ing gas tanks for their loss.

Re­count­ing how the blaze start­ed yes­ter­day, one of the dis­traught home­own­ers re­called fill­ing a ket­tle and plac­ing it atop the stove be­fore turn­ing on the gas around 6 am, as she was ac­cus­tomed do­ing.

Stand­ing in the front yard as she stared tear­ful­ly at the still smoul­der­ing struc­ture around 8 am, she said, “There was no odour at all, no scent to say there was gas leak­ing or any­thing. No hiss­ing sound, no noth­ing at all.”