Shane Su­perville

A 72-year-old woman, her daugh­ter and son-in-law were able to es­cape a fire at their home, by jump­ing out the win­dow of the two-storey build­ing in San Juan on Tues­day night.

Po­lice said the woman and her fam­i­ly were on the sec­ond floor of their home on the cor­ner of Sad­dle and Con­cord Roads around 7.30 pm when they no­ticed the air con­di­tion­ing unit be­gan blow­ing hot air.

On fur­ther checks they re­alised their roof and parts of the build­ing were on fire and tried to ex­tin­guish it but were un­suc­cess­ful.

The trio jumped from a bro­ken win­dow on the sec­ond floor, in­jur­ing them­selves from the fall.

They were tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where they re­mained up to Wednes­day morn­ing.

Of­fi­cers of the Fire Ser­vice were called in and ex­tin­guished the blaze.

San Juan Po­lice, mem­bers of the de­fence force and tech­ni­cians from the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (TTEC), were al­so called in and dis­con­nect­ed ca­bles to the premis­es.