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Mystery fire razes Friendship house
Firefighters douse the last of the fire that raised the three bedroom friendship house.
A mystery fire in the village of Friendship, East Coast Demerara, around midday yesterday, destroyed a three-bedroom house leaving six persons homeless.
The fire which started in a bedroom around 12:45 hours quickly engulfed the wooden building at 42 Friendship, forcing the occupants, who were occupying it at the time to flee to safety.
Barbara Barnes, who lived in the house with her reputed husband and children, was not at home when the fire started. She was subsequently informed of the conflagration while she was attending to business in the city.
Tara Bacchus, 24, a visitor from Linden, was in the house with the children, one of whom was a nine-month old baby, when the fire started.
She recalled that she was in the kitchen when one of the children who was in the living room alerted her to the fire.
“The li’l boy turn and say ‘fire’. When I go to the hall, I saw the bedroom on fire. When I reached to the bedroom, the whole place de already catch, everything in the bedroom de done catch. I just pick up the two babies and I come out of the house and I start screaming,” Bacchus recalled.
She said that as far as she is aware, there was no electrical connection in the bedroom where the fire started.
“Just the TV in the hall was on,” Bacchus said.
Bacchus was adamant that nothing was left lighted in the bedroom.
According to Bacchus, nothing of material value was saved from the house.
So intense was the heat from the blaze that any effort by neighbours was rendered futile.
By the time a fire tender from the city arrived the house was already demolished.
This is the second fire on the East Coast of Demerara within five days following last Sunday morning blaze at Cane Grove in which businessman Nazim Khan, a former policeman and a former foreman at the Enmore Estate, sustained third degree burns all over his body.
Khan had set himself alight in the house and then plunged head first through a window following a domestic dispute with his reputed wife.
This led to the complete destruction of his house which also comprised a grocery.
Up to yesterday he remained in a critical condition at the Georgetown public Hospital.
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