(Video) Five lose home in Non Pareil fire

Tonza Edie grieving at the loss of the house where she and her children resided.

Five persons lost their home when a fire, believed to be of electrical origin, engulfed a two-story house at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

A distraught Tonza Edie wept as she took in the results of the fire that ravaged her sister’s home, which caught on fire around 1pm.

Edie’s ten-year-old son was at home at the time the fire started and he later said that he heard an explosion on the upper storey and ran out.

Edie said her sister is residing in the United States