Renaldo Walcott. Brave Young Hero saves 2 Neighbours from Burning House.

Young Renaldo Walcott deserves the highest honour this country can bestow for an act of bravery. At just 19 years old, he risked his own life to run into a burning house and save two of his neighbours.

Cat Piss and Pepper extends greatest thanks and congratulations to this outstanding young man. He makes us proud to be young Bajans.

Cat Piss

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Man, son rescued from burning house
Published on: 2/27/08.

TO THE RESCUE. In an act of sheer bravery a teenager yesterday darted into a this burning house and rescued an elderly man and his son. Renaldo Walcott, 19 (inset) managed to bring out Leonard Buynan who is in his 80s and his son Cyril Crichlow in his 50s but the two lost the house and their possessions.

RENALDO WALCOTT, a 19-year-old labourer, ran into a burning house early yesterday morning and rescued an elderly man and his son from death or injury.

The timber house at Howells Cross Roads, The Ivy, St Michael, was reduced to ashes and Leonard Buynan, in his 80s, and his son Cyril Crichlow, in his 50’s, took refuge in neighbour Velda Neblett’s house last night.

Walcott said he returned home after 1 a.m. yesterday and his mother alerted him after hearing an explosion.

“She [my mother] told me to get Bunyan. The back part of the house was burning when I got them out,” Walcott said.

Heard explosion

Neblett said: “It happened really fast. I told my son I smelt gas and he checked my house. There was no gas. But when I opened the window, I saw the house on fire. I told my son to go and move the car. I heard an explosion.”

Nothing was saved. Both Neblett and Bunyan said they had suspicions about how the fire started since there was no cooking at the house because food was delivered to Bunyan and his son daily.

Bunyan added: “There is no gas in the house. . . . I don’t buy matches. I’m pondering to know how it catch. I’m still in shock as well. My house was over 100 years. I was born in there. The Lord will help me to get another house,” he said. (KB)