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New Year’s Day fire destroys Linden home
Three persons, including a 74-year-old pensioner, are now homeless after fire of unknown origin destroyed their three-bedroom wooden and concrete house at 189 One Mile Wismar on New Year’s Day.
A recent addition to the building, a self- contained room which was built entirely of concrete was saved. Losses were estimated in the millions of dollars, according to a relative, who noted that the building was about 40 years old, but had all modern conveniences. The fire reportedly started in one of the bedrooms.
Part of the building that was saved.
It broke out shortly after sundown, and according to reports only one occupant, 16-year-old Ritchlyn Richmond, was at home at the time. Her mother, Lorraine Pitt, was said to be visiting her sister, Verlyn, in Block 22, Wismar.
Both mother and daughter had to be rushed to the Linden Hospital complex, after they fainted at the scene.
The owner of the house, Alice Pitt, who is said to be hypertensive, was in Georgetown at the time of the disaster, and relatives were in a quandary as to how they would relay the dreadful news to her. The woman survived the ordeal.
Neighbours were only able to retrieve a bed frame and a mattress from the burning building.
They said that members of the Linden Fire service fought valiantly to save the building, even though they had a problem dousing the burning building because it was located so far away from the main road.
The fire fighters reportedly used buckets of sand in their efforts to put out the inferno, but were unsuccessful.
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