It has been revealed that children were playing with matches inside the flat of the housing block in Derrick Street in Raiwaqa which got destroyed in a fire last Friday.
National Fire Authority CEO John O’Connor said the grandmother of the children has told them that she was outside the building when the children told her that a pillow had caught fire.
Three flats were destroyed at this housing block.
Meanwhile, O’Connor said they have found out from an eye witness that the fire that destroyed a property in Wailoku on Friday started from outside the house.
Six families lost everything in these two fire incidents.
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