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Jul 13, 2018 News
The owner of a two-bedroom house situated at lot 85 Clifton Village, Corentyne, Berbice, is of the opinion that if the Guyana Power and Light had responded promptly to their complaint of sparking wires, their home could have been saved.
Sunita Jagdeo, who lives at the said address, but in another house with her daughter and son, said that the building that was burnt (also on the same lot) served as accommodation for her brother, after her husband died. She stated that she was asleep next door to the house when she heard crackling sounds and inhaled a burning scent.
According to Jagdeo, sometime before the fire began, she noticed sparking on the wires and had made contact with the Guyana Power and Light. However they arrived when the home was reduced to ashes.
“Me hear the thing go, pax, pax! Me tell me daughter something ah go off, so when we open the window we see the house start blaze up and me and my daughter run out on the road and start holler for help,” Jagdeo recounted.
She related that a neighbour immediately showed willingness to assist and told her that he would contact the fire service. They arrived approximately 30 minutes later, just in time to confine the blaze from spreading to the other building. The fire tender attached to the Rose Hall fire station reportedly arrived on the scene without water.
Jagdeo added that no one was in the building when the fire began. They managed to save nothing. Losses were estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands.
The fire service is investigating.
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