Guanaja Bonnaca fire

[Damselfish]

Got this in an email-
A devastating fire ripped through the small town of Bonacca in Guanaja Honduras early morning of October 2nd. Many of the Clark's Cay and Dunbar Rock staff have lost everything. Homes are gone, clothing gone, personal effects gone, everything burned. Guanaja is seeing the worst disaster since Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Please open your hearts and donate to the wonderful staff who has brought smiles to your faces over the years. Their families are desperate for any help you can give, via GoFundMe

Please contact us if you would like to send clothing or other items to help them start rebuilding.

Fire ravages Honduran resort island - RFI

Fire ravages Honduran resort island

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Fire in Honduras damages 210 buildings, affects 2,500 people

Premier Wayne Panton offered his sympathy and support to those affected by the fire on the island of Guanaja, Honduras.

www.caymancompass.com

 

[Ukmc]

Diving in Guanaja is amazing.
However, these people are even more amazing and treat you as their own family. A lot of them have very little from the begin with, so this disaster has been devastating.
Please, donate whatever you can if you can.
No amount is too large.

 

[USdiver1]

So very sad to see the video. Visiting Bonacca-town is a unique cultural experience. Canals instead of streets, kind of like a Caribbean Venice on a small scale. Guanaja is much less developed than even Utila. It will recover, but it may take a decade or more.

 

[brteacher]

The last week of December, I got my open-water certification at Hotel Guanaja (awesome experience in every way), which is north of Bonacca, close to Savannah Bight, but I got to spend 45 minutes or so walking around Bonacca.

I would say that most of the town seemed to be normal, and you wouldn't know that there had been a fire. But of course, there's a giant bare spot the size of a football field where all the buildings have been torn down. The demolition process has really just completed, and there's no real construction work that's started yet, except repair to the buildings at the edge of that area that survived.

But the news reports that I read talked about half or a third of the town being destroyed, and that's ended up not being so. It's definitely less than that---maybe 20%.