Fire at JDF headquarters

Firefighters on Friday responded to a blaze at a building at Up Park Camp in St Andrew, the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force, says Jamaica Fire Brigade Commissioner Stewart Beckford

“We are fighting an active fire at Up Park Camp,” Beckford told The Gleaner.

Beckford says the building is a living quarters.

A video circulating online shows the entire building being engulfed in flames.

No further details were immediately available.

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