THE police are on the hunt for a woman who, after setting the home of her reputed husband on fire, on Thursday afternoon, vanished without a trace.

The woman reportedly showed up at the man’s house with her two year old son in hand and accused the child’s father of cheating on her with another woman. The man who said that he was in his yard at the time with his business partners, refused that he has been having an affair with another woman but the reputed wife would have none of it.

As such the woman walked into the house, which she has access to, and shortly after walked out and told her reputed husband, Sherwin Barrington that “you gone know what I talking about.”

This was after the man claimed ignorance of what the woman was accusing him of.
As she left and was almost about to join a vehicle, a next door neighbour shouted that fire was coming from the southern apartment on a two compartment range house in Pineapple Street.

Barrington said that when he went upstairs, he observed fire in the middle of his mattress and immediately telephoned the fire service who responded with four fire tenders.

The man who is now displaced said that he has been living at the location for the past 47 years and would have had all his life’s investments there. He estimated his losses to be roughly $14 million with the possibility of it being more.

A Fire Service official told the media that the fire tenders that responded came from Central, West and Alberttown Fire Stations.

According to the senior fire officer, when they arrived, the entire top flat of the building was engulfed and they immediately went into containment mode to prevent the fire from spreading to the other apartment.

There was some amount of water damage to that apartment and its ceiling. When this newspaper arrived, occupants of that house had already secured the few belongings they could have.

It was observed that they mostly secured clothing and a small number of household appliances as they prepare to seek immediate shelter for the night.