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A dilapidated building in Queenstown, Georgetown endangered other structures when it became engulfed in flames recently
Mayor of Georgetown, Ubraj Narine, remains firm in his drive to seek and demolish all dilapidated buildings in and around the city.
He noted that the Mayor and City Council will soon engage in an intensified effort to locate and demolish all dilapidated buildings in Georgetown.
He said that the Engineering Department will spearhead the campaign. It will work Mayor and City Council Inspectors designated for that purpose.
According to the Narine, inspectors will be designated to earmark strategic locations, and upon locating dilapidated buildings, these will be demolished, of course within the confines of laws that govern same.
He said that while such buildings are becoming more than an eyesore around the city, such abandoned structures have become a safe haven for drug addicts, and criminal elements that use them as stakeout locations, and even as locations to store booty.
He noted that such structures in many cases, especially if in a ruinous state, can pose a dangers to occupants and members of the public.
Not so long ago, the Mayor and City Council had announced that it was going to tear down 52 derelict buildings but occupants of some of the structures had lamented that they were unaware of such plans.
City Hall, in a recent newspaper had said that at a statutory meeting, a resolution was passed to demolish the buildings, which are in a ruinous state and pose a danger to occupants and members of the public.
Just recently a fire had broken out in a dilapidated building in Queenstown Georgetown giving members of the Guyana Fire Service quite a task to extinguish the flames, which had quickly engulfed the structure (because of its very ruinous state), and put buildings close by at risk of being ravaged by the searing flames.
In this case, reports had indicated that the building was occupied by drug addicts one of whom had left a pot bubbling on one of the makeshift fireplaces they erected inside the structure for cooking purposes. In no time, flames had licked along the walls soon consuming the entire structure.
Firemen managed to quell the flames before it targeted other buildings, but sections of the fairly large structure came crashing down, forcing fire fighters to run for safety.
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