CLAIMS by the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) that its employees played a key role in rescuing occupants during Friday night’s deadly fire in Port of Spain have been challenged by a woman who insists the rooftop rescue was carried out instead by her husband and two other civilians.

In a video circulated on Facebook over the weekend, the woman said her husband, Sean Jobity, intervened after becoming frustrated by what she described as inaction by emergency services at the scene of the blaze.

According to her account, police officers, firefighters and T&TEC personnel were all present outside the burning building while residents trapped on the roof hurled bottles in an effort to attract attention.