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Electrical device caused Nesha’s Flower Shop blaze – Fire Chief
An electrical device that someone failed to unplug is believed to have caused the fire that destroyed the building housing Nesha’s Flower Land on Sunday.
Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle disclosed, yesterday, that investigators have unearthed evidence that a glue-gun was left unplugged in a work-room where the floral arrangements are made.
Nesha’s Flower Land
The building is located at Lot 78 Church and Carmichael Streets, Cummingsburg.
“It appears that a glue-gun was inadvertently left plugged in; we don’t know if it overheated or if it caused a short circuit,” Mr. Gentle said.
The Chief Fire Officer said that investigators were told that employees of the flower shop were in that section of the building where floral arrangements are made, up to noon on Sunday.
He said that initial reports had suggested that vagrants who sometimes lit fires in the compound might have caused the blaze.
Eyewitnesses said that the fire started around 17:13 hours at the back of the two-storey building.
Fire Chief Marlon Gentle, who was at the scene, said that after receiving the call, two units were dispatched from the Central Fire Station and a third from Alberttown. He explained that it appeared that a lot of combustible materials were stored in that section of the building.
Flower shop owner, Nesha Deonauth, told Kaieteur News that she had been operating the business for the past 17 years.
According to Ms. Deonauth, she lost over $10M in art work, including sculptures, some of which she was scheduled to exhibit soon.
The flower shop owner also lamented that she had recently imported a large quantity of material for the Christmas holidays, since she had already received numerous orders for the festive season.
Priest of the St. George’s Cathedral, Father Terry Davis, told this publication that the building is owned by the Diocese of Guyana but was rented to the owners of the flower shop. Davis said the building is more than 50 years old.
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