A mother and her child are now counting themselves lucky after her Lot 197 Quamina and Camp streets home and that of her aunt were gutted by fire of unknown origin a little before 3pm yesterday, leaving over 10 persons with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Amanda Olliviere was inside her home when she heard her mother, Vanessa Collymore, screaming ‘fire.’ She picked up her three-month-old baby and was able to exit the building. The mid-afternoon blaze has now left Collymore and her daughters Olliviere and Socota along with their children homeless. Collymore’s sister, Margo Elias and her reputed husband as well as Jacqueline Fortune and her family, are also now contemplating their next move.
Nothing was saved from the two old wooden houses and the families said that their losses constituted significant amounts but that they were too shocked to calculate an average.
Firemen from the Guyana Fire Service responded to the scene in a
