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Apr 20, 2012 News
The Fire Service has two more investigations to add to a rapidly growing list.
According to reports, at about 01:00 hours on Thursday, fire broke out at a building in Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo. At the time of the incident no one was at home. This publication was told that the house is occupied by a man identified only as ‘David’. He is said to be currently working in the interior.
Kaieteur News understands that neighbours spotted the flames and raised an alarm. The fire service was immediately summoned. However by the time a tender arrived the entire one-flat wooden building was flattened. The firemen were however praised for containing the blaze to the single structure. A water tank in an adjacent yard was partly destroyed as a result of the blaze.
Meanwhile, according to a source close to the investigation, two theories are being looked at. There are reports that from time to time a known male individual could be seen lurking in the compound where the house once stood. The source said it could be a case where the man may have lit a fire to cook and did not properly extinguish the fire or it may be a case where the building was deliberately
set alight.
Also at Hope, East Bank Demerara, Alvin Balkaran and his wife Stacy are now homeless after an early afternoon fire destroyed their home. According to reports, shortly after 13:00 hours on Tuesday, residents in the area called the fire service. However by the time the fire fighters arrived the entire building was engulfed in flames. Nothing was saved, as the house was locked up, and no one was at home at the time. Efforts by residents who formed a bucket brigade were futile.
Investigations are ongoing.
There have been at least eight other fires within the past two weeks. They include the April 1 blaze which razed a Regent Street building housing several businesses; a second at Berbice, two on the East Coast of Demerara; another at Agricola caused by a child playing with matches; yet another which destroyed stalls at the Stabroek Bazaar, and one which razed a house at Latchmansingh Street, Tucville.
Early last week another fire broke out at La Parfaite Harmonie. Two children, 10-year-old Andrea James and her six-year-old cousin, Alonzo Douglas, perished in the conflagration which consumed the property located at Lot 689 Middle Dam.
Delon Douglas, eight, Brian Douglas, 10, and six-year-old Andre Douglas, escaped by smashing windows and jumping from the burning building. They sustained minor burns, bruises and scratches.
According to initial reports, the five children were home alone when the fire started in the upper flat of the three-bedroom structure. A burning candle in a plastic receptacle was determined to have been the cause of the blaze.
Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle made this disclosure last week Thursday. He said that the candle was placed on a bookshelf in the children’s bedroom.
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