Three children have died as a result of severe burns received following a fire in the El Tamarindo slum town of Santo Domingo. El Tamarindo, near Hainamosa, is a town of shacks created to house those left homeless following Hurricane Georges. The deceased children were celebrating a birthday party in one of the shacks that collapsed due to the excess weight of those celebrating in the house. The collapse caused a tube of gas of a stove to disconnect resulting in a fire that caused multiple burns to several of the children and the adults that tried to rescue these. Victims were five and ten year olds. They had been in the intensive care unit of the Robert Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital. In the past two months, five persons have died due to fires in the slum town.
