FIRE IN SUSAN BAY COMMUNITY
Fire
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedAccording to an initial UN assessment, 7,000 people were affected by the 24 March fire that devastated the Susan Bay community, one of the most vulnerable communities in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 7,000 · Injured: 400
- What help is neededA massive blaze of fire of unknown origin destroyed properties and left thousands of people in need of assistance.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
According to an initial UN assessment, 7,000 people were affected by the 24 March fire that devastated the Susan Bay community, one of the most vulnerable communities in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. Over 400 people were injured and 73 per cent of those affected are currently sleeping outside. According to Save the Children, many children have been reported missing while several others became homeless. A massive blaze of fire of unknown origin destroyed properties and left thousands of people in need of assistance. The UN will be supporting the Government s response through the Interagency Emergency Preparedness Group with the National Disaster Management Authority leading the response with the support of the Freetown City Council. The Government appealed for sanitation, food and non-food items assistance.
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against the retained source record, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 2 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 7,000 retained at 2021-03-30
- Injured
- 400 retained at 2021-03-30
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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Verified
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