Fire Service Association condemns apparent arson at TSTT; wants stronger laws

The Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion Sec­ond Di­vi­sion is call­ing for the ar­rest and pros­e­cu­tion of those re­spon­si­ble for an ap­par­ent ar­son at­tack at the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) com­pound in Laven­tille, which left a fire­fight­er hos­pi­talised.

In a press re­lease is­sued on Sun­day, the as­so­ci­a­tion con­demned the de­lib­er­ate set­ting of fire to the com­pound on Sat­ur­day night, say­ing cir­cu­lat­ing footage ap­peared to show masked in­di­vid­u­als set­ting the premis­es alight.

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The as­so­ci­a­tion said one re­spond­ing fire­fight­er at­tached to the Wright­son Road Fire Sta­tion sus­tained su­per­fi­cial fa­cial in­juries and suf­fered smoke in­hala­tion dur­ing the in­ci­dent.