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Businesswoman’s Barr Street home destroyed by fire

Mar 05, 2009 News

– Loses in excess of $10M

 

A mid afternoon fire yesterday gutted the upper flat of a two storied house at Bar Street, Kitty, belonging to a businesswoman. While members of the Guyana Fire Service managed to save the bottom flat of the building, the woman estimates her losses in excess of $10 M.
Reports are that the fire started sometime around 13:30 hours yesterday.
According to the owner of the house, Mala Moolsammy, no one was at home at the time of the fire.
Neighbours told this newspaper that they were having lunch when they began to smell the scent of tyres burning.
“After we start getting the smell we see we whole house in black smoke so we run outside and when we look across we see smoke coming from Mala house,” one neighbour recalled.
The woman said she immediately told another relative to turn off the main switch in their house.
“By the time we reach back downstairs all we see is flames coming from the house…Everything happened so fast.”
By that time other neighbours had already called the fire service which arrived promptly.
Unfortunately, they did not manage to save anything from the burning building.
The building was home to the businesswoman, her husband, Patrick Moolsammy, and their three children. 
Overwhelmed with grief the businesswoman said she was at her Regent Street business place when an employee of another store ran over to her and told her that her home was on fire.
“A man from de other store come over and ask me if I name Mala and I said yes and he seh he just get a call saying that me house on fire,” Mrs. Moolsammy lamented. Amidst her loud wailing the woman insisted that every time she leaves her home she would turn off and plug out all electrical appliances.
“Oh God wha me do fuh deserve this, me wuk hard fuh every thing me get .Why?” the woman cried.
Neighbours too were heard lamenting the fact that Mrs. Moolsammy worked really hard to achieve all that she owned. The woman had been living in the area for the past 16 years.  The Guyana Fire Service is continuing their investigations to determine the origin of the fire.

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