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A fire around midday
yesterday destroyed a small wooden house at 65 Block
22/One Mile, Wismar, Linden, leaving five homeless.
Fire fighters at the scene.
Christianburg/Wismar
Secondary School Form One student, Althea Adams, 11, said
not long after she left the house, someone called out to
her that it was on fire and she went back to see it
burning.
Badly
shaken by the disaster, she said her mother Shonnette
Adams was at the time in Georgetown.
She
said she was the last person to leave home with the
intention of going to the shop owned by her mother at the
Linden/Georgetown Mini-bus Park in Linden.
There,
she said, she was to meet her brothers Hasapha and Quincy
and sister Anastacia before attending dance classes with
the Flame of the Art Dance Group.
"They
just go over the (Demerara) river before me. I lock up and
when I came back the whole house was ablaze", she
related, crying bitterly.
One
resident who lives opposite the gutted house said "in
the space of ten minutes this place don blazing."
She said some boys kicked
open the door of the house on fire but the searing flames
beat them back.
Neighbours tried in vain to
put out the fire and they summoned the Fire Service.
One
fire tender went to the scene but had to leave to refill
with water before fire fighters could put the fire out,
they said.
Althea
could not say what caused the fire in the two bedroom
house, adding that no electrical appliance was on.
Owner
of the house, Bibi Campbell, 74, said the family recently
moved into the building and she could not say what could
have been the cause of the fire. (JOE
CHAPMAN)
Tuesday,
April 17, 2007
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