Last Updated on July 10, 2020, 6:01 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Four-year-old Marecia Marshall, a pre-schooler is being hailed as a hero by the residents of Linstead, after last Saturday she alerted her mother about the fire which gutted their home.
Her mother Felecia said that she must have dozed off, but the next thing she knew was that her daughter was shaking her and waking her up saying ‘Mommy, mommy fire in the house!’.
When she woke up, she could not see anything, all that she could feel was the heat, and the smoke was very thick.
Felecia could only see her daughter because she was wearing a green top. So she grabbed her and ran out.
Felicia added that if her daughter did not wake her up, she would have probably died from smoke inhalation.
The flames devoured the two-bedroom dwelling which Felecia used to share with Marecia and Felecia’s husband Courtney Marshall, at Cats Corner, on Grove Road, St Catherine.
Courtney said that he was not at home at the time of the blaze, and he showered his daughter with praises and stated that Felecia probably would have died if Marecia would have ignored the blaze.
“She is a smart little girl. Everyone is saying she is a hero,” he said.
Seeing a photograph of her father standing outside the burnt-out house, Marecia said that the house burned up, her dolly burned up and her books as well but her Mommy was safe,
She clung to her mother’s arm, who later showered her with adoring kisses.
Marshall said firefighters theorised that the blaze resulted from electrical problems. She said the family had been provided with temporary accommodation in the community.
Among the other valuables that were destroyed was a refrigerator that he bought hours before the blaze.
He said that it was over $80,000 and he did not even get one use out of it.
He bought it on Saturday, and they had said that he must wait for 24 hours before plugging it in and he saw it burn out to nothing. He planned to use it for storing chicken so he could sell the chicken back.
Anthony Morris covers stories related to politics and regional developments. His in-depth reporting about governance and reforms makes him stand out in regional journalism, with a deep analysis of political trends and their impact on Caribbean communities.
