A Lodge family last night escaped unharmed from a fire which gutted their lower flat after reportedly being started by a toddler.
Martin Dey, of 9 Norton Street, Lodge, told Stabroek News that his two-year-old nephew lit a match on a bed while his mother, his brother’s reputed wife, was having a bath.
“I heard she at de top of she voice screaming for me and when I run I see in deh in a blaze. At de end of dat I get to understand that she lil baby a two-year-old boy light some match and like it land pon de mattress and dat start de fire. Destroy de whole in deh with wateva they had in deh,” he related.
Dey, who lives at a back house with his daughter in the same yard, said he is an upholsterer and had a shop at the front of the gutted apartment.
“Not everything destroy in deh, just dem ting at de back, flour and sugar and all dem ting soak up and I gatta buy dem ting back. But dem firemen did a hell of a job, I love that, they did a hell of a job and de fire ain’t meet far. Just the heat come through upstairs and we break de window and they get it done,” he said. He noted that people in the area also pitched in with buckets for which he was thankful.
Dey’s sister and his son live above the destroyed flat.
