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Fire razes Sparendaam home

Nov 29, 2013 News

 

 
A family of five has been rendered homeless following a fire at their lot 4 Railway Line, Sparendaam residence, yesterday evening.
The fire of unknown origin started at around 19:00 hours, gutting the two-bedroom building and leaving nothing to be salvaged by the occupants. At the time of the fire, 1-year-old Jansey Wilson and her 21-year-old mother were at home, while the other three occupants were still to return home.
One of the occupants, Renesha Simpson, told this publication that she and her baby were asleep in the front room of the house when the smell of smoke gave her a rude awakening. She said that she was then greeted by a fierce blaze and wasted no time in grabbing her toddler to rush out of the house.
Two fire tenders reportedly arrived about ten minutes later and started the battle to extinguish the fire which was a raging by that time, one relative disclosed. When Kaieteur News arrived, the fire fighters had managed to put out the fire but the remnants of the structure were barely recognisable.
Simpson’s relatives told Kaieteur News that the house was not fitted with electricity from the Guyana Power and Light Inc., and they suspected the source of the fire to be a candle which was left unattended in one of the bedrooms.
The mother of one of the occupants who had previously lived there told Kaieteur News that the house belongs to one of her aunts in the United States of America and that her family has been occupying it for the last 12 years.
The Sparendaam fire was the third to occur yesterday and yet another family is now left to wonder where they will find adequate shelter.

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