A fire erupted at Police Headquarters shortly after 2:00pm, sending black smoke billowing into the air around East Street.
The Tribune understands that the fire has been contained. The compound houses a fire station.
More on this story as information becomes available.
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hopeful 11 years, 1 month ago
It just keeps getting worse and worse for this government and the RBPF. What goes around comes around as the saying goes, This is their headquarters so the public needs to know which section caught fire nd what was damaged including records. I'm assuming nobody was injured thankfully. Have we gone through the looking glass? Things seem to be getting curiouser and curiouser......
cooperrs47 11 years, 1 month ago
I can't believe that a fire at the Royal Bahamas Police Force Headquarters, with blaze billowing from the roof, does not warrant more that a two sentence comment. I personally expect much more from the Tribune, one of two major dailies in the Bahamas, in communicating to the public, breaking news, particularly of such a magnitude. A building which houses critically sensitive and important archives and information, not to mention operations with critical consequences, which supposedly emanates from the headquarters of the RBPF. Being physically only a few blocks away, is the operation of the Tribune so severely handicapped, that they cannot quickly dispatch a reporter to East Street, for rapid and responsible coverage and reporting? There is hardly a person residing in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, who could escape being impacted, in one way or the other, by a potential disastrous fire at the headquarters of the RBPF, and will pay for rapid and reliable information.
by cooperrs47
paul_vincent_zecchino 11 years, 1 month ago
With an on-site fire station, how'd the blaze get going to this extent? Who discovered it? What'd the building house? Records? Equipment? How long had it been going before being discovered? How long did it take the FD to knock down the blaze? Where in the building did the blaze start?
Hmmmm....this and reports of increased smuggling thru the Bahamas? Starting to sound like the 70s all over again?
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