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Early morning fire ravages La Grange residence
An early morning fire has left a La Grange, West Bank Demerara, (WBD) family of five, counting their losses. The flames completely gutted the upper flat of the two-storey wooden building, Yahya Uthman and his four children,
La Grange WBD house which was gutted by fire, early Saturday morning.
once occupied.
The fire is said to have started around 4:00 am yesterday in a bedroom located at the back of the house. The flames swiftly engulfed the top of the wooden house.
Neighbours explained that fortunately no one was at home, at the time. Kaieteur News understands that the family has been out of the West Bank district for close to three weeks. Mr. Uthman was last seen at the premises, last Sunday.
“It destroyed the upstairs before the fire truck arrived from Leonora… Someone see thick smoke coming from the house and call the fire service. The fire truck come pun de scene and they used water from the trench to put it out,” one resident explained.
The badly ravished building is situated on a plot of land, a few doors from La Grange Police Station. The house was the property of the Government of Guyana.
“The place is government own and he (Uthman) was supposed to move out but like he de moving piece by piece …According to how the money comes in,” a villager commented.
When Kaieteur News visited the scene, neighbours said that Uthman had been notified of the fire.
“He had left to tend his farm somewhere on the Linden Highway. It must be hard. He got four children; the youngest is about two years old and his wife died, earlier this year.”
The man’s stepdaughter, Kiana Gonsalves, who lives a few blocks away, from her stepfather and siblings, said that she was asleep, when her husband notified her that her relative’s home was on fire.
“By the time I reach, everything de done bun up. They had plenty things in the house— appliances, TV, music set, two big suites, and everything just gone,” she lamented
Gonsalves said that after receiving the news, she immediately contacted her stepfather and told him of the incident. “He dey with them children, far up the river somewhere past Linden. He got to travel a good way to come down,” she said.
Attempts to contact Uthman for a comment on the incident proved futile.
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