Latest update November 26th, 2024 1:00 AM
Fire guts Tuschen home
One man is currently counting his losses as a fire, believed to have been caused by accident, gutted his home.
Reports are that the fire started sometime around 12:30 hrs yesterday at the man’s residence at 2127 Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo.
Eugene Breto
Kaieteur News understands that the fire may have been caused by a lighted kerosene stove which was left unattended in the one-flat house.
However, the owner of the house, Eugene Breto, who is said to be in his 70s, declined to speak to members of the media who were at the scene.
Meanwhile, one neighbour said she was made aware of the fire by her children.
“I heard my son saying ‘what da hell’ so I rushed outside to find out what was with his language and then he said ‘look there is a fire’,” the neighbour said.
She said that a carpenter who was working in Breto’s yard rushed to her asking for a phone call to summon the fire service.
According to the woman who asked not be identified, two calls were made to the fire service and she was told that a fire tender was on its way. However, that fire engine never arrived on the scene since it broke down on its way.
Assistance was nevertheless rendered by a small fire tender which operates at the Uitvlugt Sugar Estate.
Neighbours said when the GuySuCo fire tender arrived, its occupants began pumping water from a nearby canal but by that time most of the house was destroyed.
In the meantime, neighbours who were attempting to save the burning building were reportedly met with abusive language – insisting that they should leave the area – by Mr. Breto.
This was the same response members of the media got.
The burnt remains of the house
One carpenter said that the owner of the house had just finished cooking and was talking with them when he ran back into the house stating that he had forgotten to turn the stove off. By that time there was just a small blaze which was put out by the carpenters.
“So we reach out de yard and when we look back at the house we see a big fire…and dis man (Breto) refuse to come out the house,” one man said.
According to a neighbour, the man is somewhat senile and further pointed out that this was not the first instance where he forgot his stove on.
They, however, noted that on the other occasions the man managed to extinguish the fire before it could do any damage.
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