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Woman burnt in Laing Avenue fire, hospitalised
…family left homeless
A woman is nursing burns about her body after fire destroyed her Laing Avenue home yesterday leaving her along with her daughter Lisa aged 3, and her husband Burke homeless.
The burning house
The fire, which started at about 15:50hrs yesterday at 56 Laing Avenue is believed to be as a result of a kerosene stove flare-up. Abiola Fraser, 28, sustained third degree burns to her face, breasts and lower body.
Up to press time the woman was still being treated in the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.
According to hospital sources, after Fraser leaves the A&E unit she would be sent to the Burns Care Unit of the hospital.
Neighbours who were alerted to the fire after seeing “plenty black smoke” said, “Fraser get burn bad on she legs and hands.”
Sandra Bowen who lives a stone’s throw away recalled seeing smoke and thought that someone had started a garbage fire.
“I come outside and realise that it was Fraser house burning down.” She raised an alarm and telephoned the fire station.
A burnt Abiola Fraser cries as neighbours offer assistance
Four fire tenders were dispatched to the scene.
Bowen remembered seeing Fraser running out of the concrete building as plumes of black smoke rose through the roof.
“Fraser run cross and sit down on the bench with her skin burn up crying and some people take she to the hospital,” she said.
The building was built of concrete aback of Lot 56 Laing Avenue after fire destroyed seven apartments on October 10, 2007 leaving more than 20 homeless.
Neighbours who have begun rebuilding said that the fire rekindled fresh fears that their homes were again under threat. They were however grateful for the quick response of the fire service.
When Kaieteur News arrived on the scene fire officers were dousing the flames. Minutes later they removed a kerosene lamp and two stoves from among heaps of damaged clothing.
Eyewitnesses said that before the fire broke out, the woman was heard asking a neighbour for money to purchase oil to fry fish.
Some also reported that the woman’s daughter, Lisa, was at home but escaped unhurt.
Her reputed husband, a Georgetown municipality staffer, was not at home at the time of the fire.
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