Minibus burst into flames at Manchester petrol station
CHRISTIANA, Manchester— The proprietors of a Petcom petrol station and nearby businesses here narrowly escaped damage to their properties after a minibus burst into flames under the station’s canopy Monday night.
Acting deputy superintendent for the parish’s fire department, Emrick Needham, told OBSERVER ONLINE that the Christiana fire station initially received a call that the petrol station was on fire.
“The call came in at 9:53 pm. The initial call was that the gas station was on fire, but when we reached there it was really a minibus [on fire] on the compound of the gas station,” he said.
No one was injured as a result of the blaze.
In February there was widespread debate about how gas stations are being operated after fire gutted a section of the Heaven’s Fesco petrol station in Mandeville.
Kasey Williams