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May 30, 2011 News
– garden pumps again put to use
For the second time in two days fire struck in the East Coast Demerara community of Mahaica but this time the efforts of residents failed to prevent a dwelling house of businessman Mathadall Persaud of Helena Number Two, from being extensively damaged.
The fire, which started around 16:00 hours, was finally put out almost two hours later leaving Persaud, his wife and two children temporarily homeless.
The blaze comes a day after an arsonist tried to flatten a palace belonging to businessman Gopaul Boojraj, and which houses the Rohan Auto Spares.
And as in the case of Saturday’s fire, cash crop farmers again showed their worth in the absence of the official fire fighting capacity of the Guyana Fire Service.
Using their garden pumps with assistance from a bucket brigade, they contained the blaze to a significant portion of the back of the two-flat building.
But investigators are still trying to come up with a cause for yesterday’s blaze.
Speaking with this newspaper, Persaud, who suffered injuries to his hand while fighting the fire, said that he was not at home when it started.
Kaieteur News understands that he was at a nearby cricket field.
“People come and call me, and when I come the fire was already big,” Persaud told Kaieteur News.
He expressed gratitude to his neighbours for their efforts to save his house.
One of the neighbours recalled smelling something burning but thought that Persaud was burning garbage.
It was only after the neighbour saw smoke and heard persons screaming that she realised that there was a fire in Persaud’s house.
“We see fire and hear dem hollering and we come out fuh help. We use about three garden pumps and about 60 to 70 buckets,” the neighbour explained.
A fire tender took almost an hour to reach the scene only to douse the embers of the fire.
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