Multiple dwellings razed in Jones Town
A man appears to be sifting through the remains of one of the houses destroyed by fire at a tenement in Jones Town, downtown Kingston on Friday. (Photos: Llewellyn Wynter)

FIREFIGHTERS were, up to Friday afternoon, still trying to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed "multiple dwellings" at a property on Beresford Street in Jones Town, downtown Kingston, just after midday.

"At the high point of the fire we had five units and about 30 firefighters battling the blaze," a Jamaica Fire Brigade spokesman told the Jamaica Observer.

He also said they had no information on casualties or injuries resulting from the fire.

A firefighter works at putting out a section of the fire that destroyed a number of houses at a tenement in Jones Town, downtown Kingston on Friday.

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