Fire ripped through an apartment building in Bimini Sunday evening, leaving 25 people homeless, according to police.
Police suspect that an electrical shortage started the blaze at a 50-year-old building in Alice Town.
Officers from Bimini and New Providence are reportedly investigating.
The fire impacted eight families, according to authorities.
The Department of Social Services and local government representatives are assisting the fire victims, who are reportedly of Haitian descent.
Police and volunteer firefighters managed to contain the fire to the apartment building and prevented flames from spreading to nearby homes and businesses.
Employees from the Bahamas Electricity Corporation and the Bimini Big Game Resort and Marina helped in the effort, said police.
One firefighter received minor burns but no other injuries were reported, according to police.
Yesterday, Obie Wilchcombe, member of Parliament for West End and Bimini, appealed for help for his displaced constituents.
"Thank God no one lost their life but they are now without and we do make a plea for assistance," Wilchcombe said in the House of Assembly yesterday.
Minister of State for Social Services Loretta Butler-Turner assured him that social workers were already helping the fire victims.
"We were advised [Sunday evening] at the Department of Social Services of the fire and our people  on the ground were able to find places to accommodate those individuals. Hopefully we'll have a report as to what they've done for them," Butler-Turner told Parliament.
Last week, a 36-year-old phone card vendor was killed after fire destroyed his family's home in Black Village, near the Big Pond subdivision in New Providence.
Brio Colebrook was asleep on the sofa of his four-room wooden home when the fire started around 1 a.m. last Tuesday, according to police.
Two children who lived in the home were taken to hospital for burns and smoke inhalation, police said.

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