Motorcycles Catch Fire at Independence Police Station

Things got heated at the Independence Police Station this morning when a high-tension wire made contact with several motorcycles parked behind the building. The bikes quickly went up in flames. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and the police station itself wasn’t damaged. Assistant Superintendent of Police Stacy Smith shared more details about the incident.

 

ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer

“At approximately ten-thirty a.m. today June tenth, police officers in the Southern Regional Formation, particularly at the ICF, which is located in Independence, were alerted to a fire that was ongoing on the eastern side of that compound. The officers observed that there was a high tension wire that became undone and would have affected eight motorcycles that would have been parked on the compound and this resulted in the fire being caused. The fire service personnel were summoned and they responded, however because of the high tension wire they had to wait for BEL personnel. They arrived and the fire was contained and the extent of the damages are limited to the said eight motorcycles. The building was not affected by the fire. The motorcycles were not the motorcycles being used by the police officers. They were properties in possession of the police as abandoned property or properties whose owners cannot be identified, suspected to have been stolen.”

 

The value of the damages is yet to be ascertained.