Baby pulled from burning room

In a dramatic rescue effort, a ten-month-old baby boy was yesterday saved from certain death in an early morning fire in his wooden home at Plymouth, Tobago. Twenty-year-old Zorisha Sandy and her uncle Rondel were hailed as heroes by villagers in the Jaeger Hall Trace neighbourhood. With her bare hands, Zorisha smashed louvre panes of a window to the burning room where little JJ Julien was left sitting in a stroller. Her uncle Rondel, 32, was then able to get inside the room and pass the baby boy to Zorisha. The infant was severely burned on his left leg and foot. He remains warded at the Scarbor-ough Hospital in satisfactory condition. The child was said to be malnourished and is now reported to be under the care of the hospital authorities.

The drama unfolded around 5.30 am when Zorisha’s mother, Rhonda Sandy, saw fire in the small wooden house next door where the baby lived with his parents Collin Julien and Jiselle Grant. Sandy related, “I ran around the house calling “Collin, April, but nobody came out and my daughter cuffed the louvres breaking them and Rondel my brother, went in and rescued the child. Zorisha sustained injuries to her hand and was treated at the Scarborough Hospital. “If you see the big piece of glass they take out from inside my hand,” she told Newsday. However, she said if she had to, she would do it all over again. Fire officials determined that the blaze erupted when a lighted candle, which was on a shelf, fell to the floor. The fire was quickly extinguished by neighbours. It is reported that the parents had gone to bathe at a beach about a mile away when the incident occurred. Another youngster, 14, who reportedly lives at the home, was not there at the time of the fire. Police investigations are continuing.