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As dis­as­ter struck a Princes Town fam­i­ly on Sun­day, they could on­ly stand help­less­ly by the road­side and watch as a fire en­gulfed their home, de­stroy­ing near­ly every­thing they owned.

It took fire­fight­ers 45 min­utes to ar­rive, by which time the blaze had al­ready con­sumed the struc­ture. The fire was so in­tense that the con­crete blocks of the three-bed­room house be­gan to col­lapse.

Princes Town Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Dr Aiy­na Ali ex­pressed frus­tra­tion with the length of time it took for fire­fight­ers to ar­rive.