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Fire razes two houses in CK
A fire of unknown cause razed to the ground Friday night two wood-and-tin houses in Chalan Kanoa, the same block where a blaze also engulfed a single-story structure last month.
Saipan Tribune learned from witnesses that the fire started at about 9pm at a house occupied by Pitiyegedera Satiya, a 44-year-old Sri Lankan and another Sri Lankan named Omar.
Satiya said he and Omar were not at their house when the fire broke out. Satiya said he has no idea what caused the blaze.
Satiya said they had been renting the house from a Korean for two years now.
The fire at Satiya’s house quickly spread to the next house occupied by Eden Limes and her family.
Limes, 49, said she was working as a cashier at Viva Poker in Chalan Kanoa when one of her three children called and asked her for the car key because there was a fire.
Limes said when she arrived at the house, police prevented her from approaching the house, which was already engulfed in fire.
Limes said many of their appliances, including a newly purchased refrigerator, were burned into ashes.
She added that a day before the fire, the electric power of their neighbor’s where the fire started was cut for allegedly failing to pay their power bills.
Joshua Limes, 21, said he was in his room when he heard someone shouting “fire” so he went to the back of the house and saw fire from the rooftop of the house of their neighbor.
Joshua Limes said the fire was already big so he and his family panicked and that they could not find the car key. He said they saved only a few valuables because the fire immediately spread to their house.
Fire investigators are still looking into the cause of the blaze.
In 2010, a fire also gobbled the house of the Limes family’s neighbor.
Last Oct. 7, a fire broke out in the afternoon at a single-story structure that used to be occupied by CK Pool Hall Bar & Grill in front of the U.S. Post Office in Chalan Kanoa.
Police officers interrogated a man who appeared drunk at the scene. After a few minutes, officers handcuffed him and brought him inside a police’s vehicle. The man, identified as Jerry Ramon, was released the following day.
