Fire razes Better Hope houses

Vydia Toolsie tries to console her distraught mother, Lilawattie, after the fire in which they lost all their possessions.

A family of four persons was left without a home when a fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed two houses at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara.

A weeping Lilawattie Toolsie, 47, owner of one of the houses and caretaker of the other, stated she was at work, about a block away,