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Fire destroys upper flat of West Demerara house

Oct 01, 2012 News

Grief enveloped a West Coast family last evening after a fire of unknown origin destroyed their home and business place.
The lower flat of the Lot 28 Good Intent Road, two storied building, facilitated the Right Price Super Market and Poultry Centre, while the family lived in the upper flat. The Mountain Heights Wesleyan Church, located near the gutted building, was slightly damaged.
Residents helped to salvage several items from the lower flat, but practically all the family’s belongings in the upper flat went up in flames.
Krishana Mestree, resident of the community, said that he saw “a light” in the back room of the upper flat and later realised that the building was on fire.
He said that residents summoned a GuySuCo fire tender, but the vehicle arrived without water. A fire tender from Georgetown eventually arrived but by then the building was fully ablaze.
A family-friend of the Bennetts, Racquel Wilson, said that she, who lives three villages away, received a call that “de shop on fire.”
“I rushed down and when I reach here only the back room was on fire, but in like 10 minutes, the whole top was in a blaze.”
Another resident said that “if the ‘fire reel’ de come with water these people house woulda save. But as usual they show up without water, they had to be drawing from the canal. I always thought they suppose to put out de fire, but if they gon come without water, it mean that they have some other reason to come on a fire scene,” stated the resident.
Kaieteur News understands that the burnt building is owned by Roy and Simmone Bennett.  The owner’s daughter, Maranda Bennett, said they received news of the fire at 18:15hrs while making their way to GuyExpo. Maranda disclosed that her cell phone’s ring tone was off so she did not get the many initial calls that were made to her phone.  It was a resident of the community who was also on Sheriff that shouted “yall house on fire.”
By the time the family returned the building had already been gutted.
The girl, her parents and a brother, who is in the interior, reside at the premises.
The girl said that her mother fainted “a couple times and her condition is what is really grieving my heart.”
Simmone, as she sat inconsolable on the church bridge continued repeating “Why me lord”?
As relatives and friends fanned her and uttered words of encouragement, the woman muttered “but now we have to start all over again; oh lawd why me?”
However, Maranda, said that, “we will start over the Lord giveth and the lord taketh.”

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