Fire-fighters managed to contain a small blaze of unknown origin in a filing room of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Compliance Department yesterday afternoon.
Fire-fighters and police officers at the scene of the fire at the Guyana Post Office Corporation building yesterday.
The GRA department is located on the third floor of the Guyana Post Office Corporation’s building on Robb Street. According to reports, a defective light bulb may have caused some books in a filing room, in the eastern section of the third floor, to ignite.
When Stabroek News arrived on the scene shortly after 5 pm a team of fire-fighters and police officers was present and activities were in full swing. The fire had already been put out and investigations were ongoing.
A small group of GRA employees was seen standing just in front the Robb Street entrance to the building which was sealed at the time.
Trevington Bowen, Deputy Head of GRA’s Internal Revenue Department, was among the employees gathered outside. According to him, the fire started at approximately 4.35 pm.
“I can’t say much about it because I don’t work in that section of the building… about 4.35 we were asked to evacuate the building,” Bowen said.
According to a police source, investigations have indicated the fire did not start as a result of a defective light bulb. However, that source was unable to say what might have caused the fire.
Further, that source said that sometime between 4.30 pm and 4.40 pm GRA staff saw smoke coming from that part of the building and an alarm was raised.
The fire service responded promptly and in a matter of minutes the blaze was doused. Damage was contained to the filing room.
this is very suspicious….. fire start at almost the end of the working day…. may be some one trying to destroy eveidence of some sort…..we will wait and see the out come of this…. hold your breath guyanese people….
You have a very suspicious mind my friend.
I would think that government buildings would be equipped with smoke detectors/fire alarms, and not depend on some manual shouting to alarm folks………………..
Yea man…very suspicious.
Note the timing.
I wonder if any particular person was under investigation?
Everywhere we have to keep looking front, back, sideways..
man ah tell yuh is real tough.
You should write mystery novels.
i would like to see what come out of this,this ia too suspicious,lol,have to follow this up.
even if the gov’t building do have fire decetor or sprinkler i doubt they are working… is not suspicious mind is what dose happen my freind….
Thanks Ulric. You are the best here so far.
Now ah can’t let meh wife hear ’bout dis!
Why?
‘Cause she always tellin meh to write stories wid de great
imagination dat ah have.
Nah… nat fuh me.
Ah gun stick wid SN comments.
Ah did enough writing in meh wuk.