Contrary to media reports, a house in Villa was not intentionally set on fire by a group of young children. Instead, it seems that a fire they started got out of control and spread to the nearby abandoned building.
According to reports, an anonymous caller informed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) that they had witnessed four young men setting fire to the vacant house around 9:15 a.m. on May 26. Firefighters from the St. John’s Fire Station promptly responded to the scene.
Upon arrival, the firefighters observed smoke damage on the eastern side of the house. However, the fire had already been extinguished by a group of volunteers.
Witnesses stated that at least four youths were seen igniting the house before fleeing when discovered.
Two of the suspects were reportedly apprehended, including an 11-year-old. A source revealed that the 16-year-old and the 11-year-old, who are siblings from Villa, explained to the police that they were attempting to light copper wire on a piece of galvanize with two other friends when the fire got out of control.
The teenager informed the police that some adults assisted in extinguishing the fire.
Fire officials inspected the house and observed smoke damage on a small section of the eastern side, along with burnt copper wire on a sheet of galvanize.
Both minors were taken into police custody and subsequently released to their mother.
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The devil always find idle hands something to do!!
Why are you lighting copper wires?
Or whatever it was that you were doing?
Omg😲
Really!!
Kids are you that bored?
Please find something constructive to do.
It’s jus the times things will happen jus so it go every thing dat happen had to its jus my belief
Way mommy and daddy?
Mammy not supposed to lost a day work to baby sit a 16 year old I jus belive the devil is at work an many things which look avoidable will happen
I know this may not be received well, Sandra, but I think that actually IS constructive. That’s how children learn. Rather than shutting them down at every turn, it’s my opinion that parents should foster their children’s curiosity and spend time with them getting into safe “mischief” and educating them on how to be safe when unsupervised. My guess is the boys were trying to see if they could weld the copper to the galvanize.
That’s a healthy scientific theory to test. Personally, I’m happy to hear that children still play outside and get into shenanigans when otherwise I see families glued to their screens, not interacting with each other or the outside world. Thankfully nobody was hurt and minimal damaged was caused. Growing up, my siblings and I were allowed to do stupidness like that, but we got attention from our parents who told us to carry out our experiments in open, paved areas. It’s hard for parents who have to work to support their families to find the time to spend time with their children, but even some conversations around these sorts of topics would help.
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