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Apr 16, 2013 News
-police take statement from relatives
Investigations into last Sunday’s fire which destroyed Mohamed’s Storage Bond on Duncan Street, Campbellville is continuing. Fire Chief Marlon Gentle yesterday told Kaieteur News that his department was still investigating the fire and he could not give a further update.
The building is owned by Mr. Gool Mohamed Bacchus, owner of the MFK store in Hadfield Street. His son Mohamed Rahaman, yesterday told Kaieteur News that investigators had taken a statement from him on Friday. The man said that according to his knowledge no one has been arrested.
According to Rahaman , the family believes that arsonists who have been targeting them are to be blamed for the fire. Family members are claiming that there is a connection between this recent fire and threats that they have been receiving from a city businessman.
Mr. Rahaman told Kaieteur News that his family started receiving threats soon after they purchased the MFK building on Hadfield Street (now G. Bacchus Enterprise). According to him soon after payments were complete for the property, a mystery fire broke out there, he claimed.
That blaze destroyed millions of dollars in stocks which were in the ground floor, which housed a supermarket and the first floor that stored household appliances. According to him, only the building was insured. The third fire happened at the family’s stall in the Bourda Market. In that fire too, Rahaman said that they suffered significant losses.
He alleged that his family started to rebuild, but the threats continued, with the individual allegedly threatening to kidnap his children and wife. According to him the family has made about 20 reports at the Kitty and Brickdam police stations.
The man went on to say that he has even provided the police with several telephone numbers and different information about the individual who had made the threats.
Rahaman lives with his spouse, children and other relatives next to the bond. He was one of the first people on the scene. He told Kaieteur News that a relative came to him and said that there was a fire next door.
Rahaman had stated that he saw that the bond was engulfed by thick black smoke and he rushed to the scene with a water hose in a futile attempt to extinguish the fire. However his wife, Indira, who was in the building next to the bond, shouted that he should exit the building since the fire had consumed an upper flat too.
Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle said that the fire service received a call and it was firefighters from Campbellville and Central Fire Stations who responded first. According to Gentle, by then, the building was already engulfed in flames. After seeing what they were faced with, the ranks sent out calls to other fire stations.
But he said that they soon exhausted their water supplies, which they had used on other buildings in the vicinity. He stated that they attempted to use water from nearby canals but aborted this attempt because of the silt.
Kaieteur News was told that while there were hydrants nearby, it took an hour before the water pressure became adequate for fire-fighting purposes.
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