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Fire destroys Prospect House, eight homeless
A family of eight is now out of house and home following a fire believed to be as a result of a six-year-old playing with matches in a bedroom, of Lot 214, Third Street, Prospect Village, East Bank Demerara.
Lot 214 Third Street Prospect in flames.
While relatives refuted the allegations, both neighbours and relatives said they saw the youngster on the staircase just before the fire started about 15:50 hrs.
Sookram Sewcharan was riding from work to the only place he called home for his 49 years when he saw the fire engine in his street. ”People tell me, ‘Uncle is you house on fire.’” The house was half destroyed when he arrived home.
His wife, Sayeeda Azeez, was in the kitchen in the bottom flat of the home at the time. She announced that she smelled something burning in the top flat.
Her son, Sunil, ran upstairs to investigate and saw fire bellowing from his bedroom.
“The whole back bedroom of the three-bedroom upstairs was on fire. One bedroom was downstairs”. The fire service used water from a trench to extinguish the blaze despite dispatching two fire tenders.
Sunita Sewcharan, 24, was also at work at Toolsie Persaud They said my house was on fire.
Five of the eight people who are now out of house and home as a result of the fire.
“When I came home everything was already flat; we ain’t save nothing.” Those at home when the fire started were matriarch Sayeeda Azeez, her daughter, Savita, and her husband Mark along with two children, Mark and Jayden Alert (six and two).
“When the fire engulf upstairs was a big flame…They lost everything in about 15 minutes,” a neighbour said.
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