FIRE and police officials are investigating a fire which destroyed a hardware store in Tobago on August 2.
[caption id="attachment_1100081" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Dave Discount Hardware was gutted by fire on August 2. The hardware is located in Canaan, Tobago. - VISUAL STYLES[/caption]
Police said around 2.45 am, an occupant of Dave’s Discount Hardware, Milford Road, Canaan, woke up to the smell of gasoline and saw a vehicle on the compound was on fire.
[caption id="attachment_1100087" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Dave Discount Hardware was gutted by fire on August 2. The hardware is located in Canaan, Tobago. - VISUAL STYLES[/caption]
She raised an alarm and the other people on the compound ran out of the store.
[caption id="attachment_1100083" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Dave Discount Hardware was gutted by fire on August 2. The hardware is located in Canaan, Tobago. - VISUAL STYLES[/caption]
The building was later engulfed in flames.
[caption id="attachment_1100089" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Dave Discount Hardware was gutted by fire on August 2. The hardware is located in Canaan, Tobago. - VISUAL STYLES[/caption]
The fire service and police were contacted and the blaze was extinguished, but the building was destroyed. It contained hardware items, paint and other flammable substances.
[caption id="attachment_1100085" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Dave Discount Hardware was gutted by fire on August 2. The hardware is located in Canaan, Tobago. - VISUAL STYLES[/caption]
The cost of the damage has not yet been estimated.
[caption id="attachment_1100088" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Dave Discount Hardware was gutted by fire on August 2. The hardware is located in Canaan, Tobago. - VISUAL STYLES[/caption]
Crown Point police are investigating.
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