84-Year-Old Woman Perishes In Laventille House Fire — 2 Children Escape Unharmed
An elderly woman is dead following a fire at her home in Laventille on Thursday night (2nd April, 2026). The deceased has been identified as 84-year-old Elise Morris of Robinson Lane, Success Village, Laventille.
According to reports, Morris, who used a wheelchair, was on the upper floor of her two-storey home, when the house caught fire, around 8:26 PM.
Neighbours alerted the Fire Service as two (2) children, aged three (3) and ten (10), managed to safely escape the home.
Fire Officers from the Wrightson Road and Morvant Fire Stations responded to the scene, where the house was already engulfed in flames, and subsequently extinguished the blaze. Officers from Headquarters North also assisted.
Morris’s body was later found on the ground floor in the South-Western section of the lower storey. Investigators suspect she may have fallen after the floor of the upstairs bedroom collapsed during the fire.
The two-storey house, which had four (4) bedrooms, was not supplied with electricity and was reportedly lit mainly using candles.
However, officials have not determined the exact cause of the fire.
Damage to the home has been estimated at approximately $700,000.
Other occupants of the house were identified as 42-year-old Alicia Morris and 28-year-old Dario De Gannes.
Investigations are continuing by Officers of the Port-of-Spain CID and the Homicide Bureau of Investigations (HBI) Region I.
More on this as it becomes available.
[Source: CNC3]
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