Jacmel: fire after the illegal storage of fuel

A house was reduced to ashes and a person was partially burned on the evening of Wednesday, April 1, 2026, on Nossirhel Lhérisson Street, in the Geffrard market area in Jacmel.

According to the tenant, Lucie Colin, the fire broke out after a young gasoline seller, trying to escape a police patrol, asked a housemate to store fuel inside the house. “I don’t know where the fire came from, but it was after André Métellus ordered a young lady, who was fleeing from the police, to hide the gasoline she was selling in the street, that the house caught fire,” she explained.

The tenant claims to have lost everything in the fire. “I had goods that I had bought today. Everything went up in smoke. We couldn’t save anything,” she lamented.