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Mother, daughter saved from fiery death
A woman and her six-year-old daughter were spared a fiery death when they were pulled from a burning house at Montrose North, East Coast Demerara but not before they both received minor burns.
The woman, Kumarie Baljit, 24 , and her daughter, Rachel, were asleep in the bottom flat of the two-storey wooden house when the fire started around 18:50 hours yesterday.
Saved! Six-year-old Rachel Sancharra sustained burns to her hands before she was pulled from the burning house.
They tried desperately to escape the flames by hiding behind a toilet but the heat was so intense that they would have surely burnt to death had it not been for the presence of mind of another male relative who pulled them to safety. Baljit sustained burns to her left leg while her daughter’s right hand was scorched.
The fire, which is of unknown origin, completely razed the building leaving six persons homeless.
Baljit told this newspaper that she and her six-year-old daughter were in their room when the fire started.
She was sure that she did not leave anything cooking on the stove nor was any of the electrical appliances left on unattended.
“When it start me run outside with she, and me run behind a toilet but the fire de too big. Me husband brother- in- law bruk de fence and pull me and me daughter over,” she recalled, expressing thanks to the relative who saved their lives. Anita Sancharra, who lives a few houses away and whose mother also occupied the burnt house, told Kaieteur News that her mother had visited her and had left for home shortly before the fire started.
According to Sancharra, her mother was about to watch television when the fire alarm was raised.
“She say she smell something burning and all the light cut off in the house and then she hear ‘fire at the back’,” Sancharra related.
After rescuing Baljit and her daughter, neighbours desperately tried to extinguish the blaze but the fire was too intense, forcing them to abandon that activity. The Guyana Fire Service was contacted but by the time a fire tender arrived, the house was already destroyed.
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