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Nov 06, 2012 News
A Triumph, East Coast Demerara businessman, was last night counting his losses after a fire destroyed the small chowmein manufacturing establishment he started just over a year ago.
The fire started around 20:00 hrs in the Vishal Chowmein Factory, located in a wooden bond at the back of businessman Girdharry Persaud’s Lot 54, Agricultural Road home. Workers were drying stacks of chowmein in the bond when the blaze started. The bond and all the stock were completely destroyed and Mr. Persaud estimated his losses in the millions of dollars. He said that his business was uninsured.
Residents, armed with buckets prevented the blaze spreading to the family home, where a large propane tank is located, until firefighters eventually arrived.
Mr. Persaud said that he is at a loss to understand how the fire started, but disclosed that workers were drying stacks of chowmein on coal pots covered with zinc sheets. No one was in the small factory when the fire broke out.
Mr. Persaud said that the family first realised that something was amiss when his son went to monitor the drying process and noticed the structure was on fire.
The son immediately raised an alarm which brought many residents rushing to the scene. Using water from five tanks in Mr. Persaud’s yard, they immediately formed a bucket brigade and attempted to douse the flames.
Kaieteur News was told that a small Guysuco fire tender arrived on the scene some ten minutes later but the crew had no water. Two other fire tenders, including one from Campbellville, arrived soon after and the firefighters eventually put the blaze out after accessing water from a nearby canal.
Mr. Persaud, who sustained minor burns, was loud in praise of residents who prevented the fire from spreading to his house. He said that a major conflagration would have occurred had the blaze reached the propane tank in his bottom house.
The businessman said that he established the Vishal Chowmein Factory in February 2011. He said that he put ‘every cent’ into the business, which had six employees.
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