Two homeless as fire destroys Mahaicony home

Aug 24, 2014 News

Two persons are now homeless after a fire of unknown origin destroyed their three bedroom home at Lot 8 Calcutta, Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

Remains of the building

The fire which erupted sometime around 19:00 hrs on Friday has left Travis Reynolds and his partner, Casey Blackman without a place to call home.
According to Reynolds’ mother, Rubina Taylor, she was at a shop in the village when someone called and informed her about the tragedy.
“The person called and said “cousin Rubina, cousin Rubina your son house on fire” and the person hang up,” she recalled.
Taylor added that she immediately left the shop and went to the scene where she discovered that her son’s house was indeed on fire.
“When I reach I see the big, big smoke all over. Nothing could have been saved…everything burn up…everything. All the furniture and so destroy,” Taylor lamented.
She added that her son is devastated and still cannot come to grips with the fact that he has lost whatever he worked for all those years.
“He was not at home when it happened,” Taylor told this newspaper.
She explained that her son was at the corner of a street in the village ‘liming’ when someone informed him that his mother’s house was on fire.
“He said that he was running to my house but when he reach closer then he realized it was his house that was burning,” Taylor posited.
Up to press time, fire fighters were trying to determine what could have caused the blaze.