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Fire leaves 75-yr-old granny homeless
While the majority of persons is busy making plans for the festive season, 75-year-old
The remains of the Charity home.
Amarajia Mangal of Charity Squatting area, Region Two, is not that enthused.
Her life has been overcome with sorrow after she lost the house she lived in for the past six years. The two-bedroom wooden house was equipped with the basic household amenities.
Being housed currently at one of her relatives, Mrs. Mangal sadly recounted the horrifying incident, which also put her life and those of her three other relatives at risk.
She said that she retired to bed early Tuesday evening and was frantically awakened by her seven-year-old granddaughter, Karishma, who was yelling “Nannie, Nannie fire!”
Mrs. Mangal added that she and her sister, Kowsilla, who was at the time visiting, first noticed fire emanating from aback of the kitchen.
The elderly woman, who also lost her identification card and pension book among other amenities, said the fire quickly raced through the building. She and the other three occupants of the home were rescued after a brave neighbour threw them from the flaming building.
Neighbours eventually summoned both the police and the Guyana Fire Service…both arriving after the house was completely destroyed.
Mrs. Mangal said that she is, however, grateful that her life has been spared and noted that if it wasn’t the braveness of the young man who rescued them from the burning building, they too would have been dead today.
The elderly woman, who owned the building, said that she is convinced the fire was the work of an arsonist. She said that for the past six years she had occupied the house, she was without electricity and used a lamp, which was at all times properly secured.
Mrs. Mangal is asking the general public to extend some form of kindness to her at this time, so she can rebuild her life.
Her contact numbers are 617-5528 and 619-1210.
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