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Pensioner rescued from burning house
– Four homeless
By: Romila Boodram and Leonard Gildarie
Four persons are now homeless after a fire of so far; unknown origin completely destroyed their two-storey house located at Lot 78 First Street Alberttown, Georgetown a little after 08:00pm last night.
Homeless are
Barbara Barker
, 72, her brother Eric Barker, 70, his wife, Jeanette Barker and their nephew Devon Young. The fire started at the lower flat of the building.
According to information, Barbara Barker and her nephew, Devon Young, shared the upper flat of the now burnt out building while her brother and his wife occupied the lower flat.
At the scene last night, the occupants were all shocked and looked on helplessly as all their lifelong earnings went up in flames.
A traumatized Jeanette Barker who was visibly shivering, said that she was in her living room watching television when she saw smoke emerging from her front room.
“I don’t know what happened… When I see the fire coming out of the room I go to take a bucket and try to out the fire but it was too much,” the pensioner said.
The woman claimed that she could not remember what happened after that; but according to a resident, Dillon Drakes, he smelt smoke and when he peeped out from his Lot 78 Alberttown home, he saw his friend, Devon Young throwing water at the lower flat of the building and shouting “Uncle Boop, Uncle Boop.” Uncle Boop is Eric Barker.
I thought that Uncle Boop get trapped in the building and I run over and kicked down the door and I see she (Jeanette Barker) now trying to get out of the building so I hold her and bring her out. When I reach outside the fire spread to the whole front,” the young hero explained.
The other occupant, Barbara Barker, recalled sitting in her living room thinking about the good old days when she smelt smoke. “I call my brother’s phone and I didn’t hear anybody answer and is peep I go to peep out and I see the big flames coming up so I hurry to get out.”
Jeanette Barker
The elderly woman said by the time she reached downstairs, she saw the youth fetching her sister-in-law, who appeared lost in thoughts, out of the burning building.
The building was located at the back of a lot and this posed some problems for the firemen. However, they did an excellent job and prevented the blaze from spreading.
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