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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

A small fire broke out on the ve­ran­dah of the Na­tion­al Li­brary Build­ing in Port-of-Spain around 9 pm on Fri­day, prompt­ing an emer­gency re­sponse from staff and fire of­fi­cials.

Deb­bie Good­man, Man­ag­er of Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS), said the fire was quick­ly de­tect­ed, and emer­gency pro­to­cols were im­me­di­ate­ly ac­ti­vat­ed.