By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

A MASSIVE fire ripped through a Haitian village over the weekend, destroying nine homes and leaving more than a dozen people homeless.

Police say the fire started around 8.43pm on Friday at a shanty town in Gamble Heights, off Baillou Hill Road South.

Fire Chief Walter Evans said within minutes of the fire being reported the first fire truck was on the scene.

"The first responding vehicle got there before 9pm. After seeing the gravity of the situation, four more trucks were dispatched to assist. On arrival to the area firefighters met nine single storey wooden structures engulfed in flames. All nine homes were comple ...

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