Cassada Gardens and Tindale Road are scenes of fires in which structures were completely destroyed, official reports

Fire officials are still investigating the cause of weekend blazes that destroyed two abandoned buildings: a concrete house in Cassada Gardens and a wooden structure on Tindale Road.

Reports are that the inferno in Cassada Gardens started shortly after 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 1, and two fire tenders had to be dispatched to the scene. 

When firefighters arrived, they met the 25’ x 32’ three-bedroom structure fully engulfed in flames.

The Fire Department’s spokesperson, Inspector Lester Bagot, says that officers were unable to save the structure and it was completely destroyed by the fire.

Fire officials say there was no electricity attached to the house, which was not insured, and no one was injured as a result of the fire.

It is alleged that a Cassada Gardens man went to Police Headquarters and reported that the burnt-out property was the home of his deceased grandmother and he was the caretaker.

Reportedly, he said he had given permission to a young man from Willikies and a young woman from Cassada Gardens to stay in the house that same afternoon at about 4:30 p.m.

At about 6:45 p.m., he said, he was informed by a friend that the house was on fire.

The Police made initial attempts to contact the two people, but without success.

Meanwhile, a police corporal from the St. John’s Fire Station telephoned Grays Farm Police Station at about 4:10 a.m., also on April 1, and reported that there was a house fire on Tindale Road.

Two fire trucks from St. John’s were deployed.  At the scene, officers met an abandoned wooden structure, measuring 37 x 27 feet, completely engulfed.

However, in spite of officers battling the blaze to save the house, it was completely destroyed.

Fire officials say there was nothing of value inside and there was no electricity attached to the structure.