Latest update February 20th, 2025 12:39 PM
Mystery fire guts Rasville home
A fire of unknown origin badly damaged a Rasville, Greater Georgetown home on Saturday night.
The fire reportedly started sometime around 19:30 hrs at the south end of the Lot 4682 Rasville building and quickly consumed part of the structure.
The occupants are Lorraine Brower, 56; her son, Lorenzo Sampson and her foster-grandson, six-year-old Yenessie Archer.
The fire started in Archer’s bedroom which is located in the top flat.
Brower said that she was operating an evening school in the lower flat of her property for adults and has lost everything in the fire.
The destroyed structure
According to the 56-year-old woman, she was at the back of the property and her son and foster grandson were in their rooms sleeping when her son alerted her that the house was on fire.
“My son run come call me and said that the house on fire and when we check, it was in the middle bedroom. The boys in the area formed a bucket brigade and then the fire tender come and out the fire,” Brower said.
While this newspaper was reliably informed that it was the six-year-old who started the fire after playing with matches on the mattress, Brower said that she was not aware of that but is waiting the findings from the Guyana Fire Service.
However, she did admit that the six-year-old was in his bedroom prior to the fire.
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